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Re: VIDEO: team 1528 drive train experiment

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Originally Posted by BJC View Post
Just out of curiosity, how do you have the controls set up? I've personally always disliked those funky Halo and Pacman type setups. Assuming a handheld controller I was sort of thinking along the lines of a standard tank drive for the 4 outer parellel wheels (for primary driving) and then using the L and R triggers to drive the 2 perpendicular wheels either Right or Left (for strafing). This way the robot is very easy to drive but still fully mobile in every direction using a combo of joysticks and L/R.

Anyways, really cool project, I personally prefer slide drives over mecanum wheels and this one looks very nice.

Edit: Answered above
we run our controls from a xbox 360 controller and run it like halo, i do like how you explain yours with using the triggers for the straffe options whiich would prolly be a little easier especially in controlling because i have notice with the way we drive it with the halo drive that sometimes when just trying to drive straight if the joystick is a slight to the left i straffe left a bit the triggers could cut that down but i run the halo drive cuz i have played halo and call of duty so much i am use to running it that way but like the idea of using the triggers now time to implement some way to get of pushing power


thanks for looking at it
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