Controlling a Mecanum drive with two joysticks?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Leav

a normal joystick just doesn't have enough degrees of rotation to control a holonomic robot. so we had a couple of ideas:

1. • use a two joystick design where each joystick controls the a corresponding side of the robot. this would allow full control but the exact function would need to be figured out.

This might actually be easier. Tank drive, with some code such that moving both joysticks to one side or the other causes the robot to slide. I think the main problem with a "sidewinder" joystick (other than converting it to analog) would be making sure that you don't twist it at the wrong time.
Or, a single stick using the thumb wheel to rotate (left side next to the stick) or even the button and trigger.