Currently I am experimenting with a mecanum drive/base and have finished building it. Although I am not sure how to code a mecanum base on VEXCode Blocks. Any help would be appreciated

If you look at the Wiki - #33 by technik3k that is forming up, you can see some images and code relating to mecanum drives. The general concept is that you will combine 3 joystick signals together to give a motor value to each of the 4 wheels. One signal for Y (forward/reverse), one signal for X (…

google is your friend. Searching box in the vexforum is your friend. There are a lot of threads and information there.

I’m sorry but I haven’t found anything for VEXCode Blocks. @langchen

you need to understand the concept/math behind the mecanum. Here is the good one. http://www.robotc.net/blog/2011/11/22/vex-mecanum-drive-using-robotc/ DougMoyers also gave a good resource for you to start.

MechanControl.v5blocks (9.9 KB)

This code worked wonders for my robot! How would you suggest coding autonomous periods? Would it be more useful just to use a standard 4 motor drivetrain or is there a simple way to program the strafing functions and use a value that all motors (or some) would drive for?

Welcome to the forum. It would be a good way to get started to work with the standard drivetrain code. Once you get a sense for how it works, you could look to create your own code to strafe for a specified distance. Just a heads up, reviving old threads is considered bad form. Probably hard to …

Hey this was soo awesome I wanted to ask one question how would I get it drive forward regularly?

like not straffing the entire time

Mecanum Drive Coding on VEXCode Blocks

VEX V5 General Discussion General Forum

muradmalik October 29, 2020, 6:59pm 6

here ya go

Mecanum Wheels V5 Block Code