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Differential drive

One joystick-to-tank-drive function, written for both Arduino (C++) and Python.

Project · Robotics · 2 parts
Arduino Smart Car
RoboticsHow-to · 1 min

Joystick to Differential Drive (Arduino)

When you are building robots, one of the most common chassis you find are the ones that use Differential Drive. This means they have a motor per wheel, might be threaded, two wheels and a caster, 4 wheels, etc.

Arduino smart car
RoboticsHow-to · 2 min

Joystick to Differential Drive (Python)

As I’m now working on a Raspberry Pi Zero W based robot, doing my first test on Python programming, I needed to port the function created in my previous post for Arduino (c++). This is the same but written on python

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