pic: My first Lego Swerve Drive

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Originally Posted by Greg Perkins

Ahhhh,

Ken's breaking out the old-school legos, with the old-school motor controllers! See kids, you can still have fun with the toys that we used to use when we were little.

Looking good ken, how does it function?

I remember the good ol' days of using LEGO before Mindstorms and RCXs... we had to use line coding and the LEGO Datca interface. Although having the huge number of input and output ports was a plus, the main board had to stay tethered to the Mac. So you couldn't make mobile robots without the equivalent of a trans-Atlantic cable of Lego wires.

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I tried making a swerve drive for lego's 2 years ago and i cound out that i didnt quite have the right parts/right logic at the time, it was very hard.

Earlier this year I gave it a go again and i made a very interesting type of swerve drive, it only had 2 wheels and a skid to keep it balanced, it worked pretty good surprisingly.

Nice job on your work, swerve drive is so much fun to show off when you get it to work!