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Unread 12-04-2010, 19:48
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Trying to program the swerve drive
AKA: Alex
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Re: Mecanum or Swerve?

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Originally Posted by big1boom View Post
For an offseason project, I would say go ahead and try to build a functional swerve. It will be a great learning opportunity.

For build season though, I would recommend against doing a swerve without fairly successful offseason prototyping.


If you have any questions about either system, or about the specific failures we discovered, go ahead and ask.

EDIT: Woah this post got long quickly
Now I am curious...you said sensors for swerve, but I'm not sure how we would implement said sensors (ie what types and where would we need them)

As far as programming, would you reccomend a joystick devoted to moving the robot in any direction and another axis (x axis on a 2nd stick comes to mind) devoted to rotating the robot around its CoG?
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