Drivetrain on VEXCode V5

[AMB]

What exactly is a DriveTrain?

[jpearman]

you will find all sorts of useful info here
https://kb.vex.com/hc/en-us/categories/360002333191-V5

spend some time reading the forum before posting very basic questions.

[BananaPi]

@jpearman, It seems like the buttons on the website you linked don’t have any hyper-link attributed with them.

Is this supposted to happen?

@AMB

Thanks, as if I did not know how a robot works.

I would watch your tone if I were you. I think what he was trying to direct you to the coding reseorce library, which I cannot find due to the afformentioned broken links,

To answer your questions (and I would highly encourage you to read the artical yourself), a Drivetrain is a combination of motor groups that has defferent functions to drive (Drivetrain.drive(FORWARD)), turn (Drivetrain.turn(LEFT) // I'm not sure if LEFT is correct, drive a certin distance (Drivetrain.drive_for(FORWARD, 100, mm)), turn to an angle (Drivetrain.turn_for(LEFT, 90, DEGREES), and accomplish other tasks.

A motor group is a group of motors. I think it basically pairs up 2 or more motors together and applies the same wattage to them. The code for motorgroups works exactly the same as for normal motors, and you can create motor groups with 3+ motors using this method:

How to make a motorgroup with 3 motors in VEXcode blocks

There was a comment here that blocks only allows two motors in a motorgroup. While on the surface that is true, the graphical configuration only allows two motors, with a little hacking and using switch blocks we can add as many more as we want (and a little insider knowledge I will share). Lets say we want motors on ports 10, 11 and 12 to be part of a motor group. We start by making a motor group using ports 10 and 11 (select 10 as the first motor when creating it), next we create a single…

I hope this helps!

[jpearman]

@BananaPi

Is this supposted to happen?

Seems fine here, do you have javascript disabled for some reason ?

[BananaPi]

Hmm, Javascript is enabled, and every other website I use still works. The links to the buttons are also missing for the IQ section too (and maybe others. I haven’t checked very many). This has been not working for about a month now.