pic: Jester Drive:Mecanum Wheel Drive Train

[BrianBSL]

Originally Posted by ConKbot of Doom

When I first saw 357 strafe, I was driving in a match in Philly, and I don't know if they were on our alliance or the other, but I was amazed. Especially since how it worked wasn't immediately visible. I had a look later, and loved what I saw. Very nice job guys.

As for control's why not go for a keyboard and a joystick? make the keyboard be WASD, for strafing and forwards/backwards, and joystick for turning. A mouse would be even cooler, but a bit harder to implement. Would be neat to see...
I mean it works for First person shooter's, why not a robot

A keyboard limits you a lot - allowing you to only move in 4 directions rather than an infinite amount that the joystick allows you. A mouse doesn't really give you anything that a joystick doesn't, and you have to worry about running out of room on the mousing surface. We (190) use a joystick for the direction vector (relative to the driver) and a 2nd joystick for rotating counter clockwise or clockwise. We're probably going to set it up with a single 3 axis joystick to make it more intuitive, however. The second joystick also has the issue with more experienced drivers, when they start driving it tank-drive style.