we are trying to build an 8-motor wheelbase but our coder is out, we’ve tried almost anything, but our coder likes to use blocks what coding I know is text(not vex). can anyone help us with the code, once we get our coder back she can figure it out, but we need a drive code now
You have a couple options.
You could manually code the 8 motors in blocks, by making 4 motor groups and making a forever loop where the speed of the left and right sides are updated based on joystick values.
Or you could move to text and use this
motor leftMotorA = motor(PORT1, ratio18_1, false);
motor leftMotorB = motor(PORT2, ratio18_1, false);
motor leftMotorC = motor(PORT3, ratio18_1, false);
motor leftMotorD = motor(PORT4, ratio18_1, false);
motor_group LeftDriveSmart = motor_group(leftMotorA, leftMotorB, leftMotorC, leftMotorD);
motor rightMotorA = motor(PORT5, ratio18_1, true);
motor rightMotorB = motor(PORT6, ratio18_1, true);
motor rightMotorC = motor(PORT7, ratio18_1, true);
motor rightMotorD = motor(PORT8, ratio18_1, true);
motor_group RightDriveSmart = motor_group(rightMotorA, rightMotorB, rightMotorC, rightMotorD);
drivetrain Drivetrain = drivetrain(LeftDriveSmart, RightDriveSmart, 319.19, 295, 40, mm, 1);
at the beginning of your code to manually create an 8 motor drivetrain that you can then control through the joystick configuration.
You could use the same custom code i used for a 6 motor drive and add two more motors here is the link to the topic i made i hope it helps