I was told by a previous team mate that one of the commands for motor spinning was better to use but I forgot, any help would be nice! Thanks!

You can use setVelocity to calibrate the motor speed with the controller joysticks. I’m sure there are other ways of doing this though. I think spin and spinFor are mostly for autonomous.

if you are programming using C++ (or Python for that matter) avoid setVelocity completely. use spin when just wanting the motor to spin at a given velocity and spinFor/spinTo when asking the motor to spin on its own to a requested position (number of rotations etc.) vex::controller Controller; ve…

Will this only let the motor go forwards? Or will the fact that it’s using a controller axis let it also rotate backwards.

The motor will be able to go forwards and backwards. Using m1.spin(forward… with a negative value will run the motor in reverse. Controller.Axis1.position() will give values between +100 and -100, the best way to learn about this is to experiment and see what happens.

setVelocity() alone does nothing. All it does is set the default velocity of the motor for when spin is eventually called. spin will spin a motor at a desired speed. For example motor.spin(vex::forward); will spin the motor forwards at whatever speed you set it to using setVelocity beforehand. spi…

Also quick clarification to add to some of the weirdness. There’s no overloaded version of spinFor that accepts vex::percentUnits, but there IS one that specifically accepts vex::velocityUnits. This is different from spin that accepts both types. Therefore this: motor.spinFor(1, vex::seconds, 100,…

setVelocity vs spin vs spinFor during driver control

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jpearman September 27, 2023, 4:31am 7

Well almost, if the motor is already spinning then setVelocity will change the motor’s velocity.
more thoughts I have on setVelocity here.