Recent content by Physics Guy

I suspect it is my robotics experience. The rules for every robotics competition I know of the regulates such things says one motor per controller (and the reverse). I had never thought of running two motors in parallel. Series is also a no no in the robotics competition world but I had thought...

Oddly enough it seems simple to me as its just taking the throttle and the angle of the steering as inputs and sending different throttle outputs to the two sides. It would take a while to optimize but its not that different from some programing we do on FIRST robots to make sure they move...

Interesting. I've never really thought about using one bigger controller.

For the Power Racing series I am working with a high school robotics team to build a 1440W (fuse limited) go kart based, very loosely, on a Power Wheels body. I have a fair amount of experience building FIRST robots (100+ lbs) but they tend to run flat out for 3 min. This kart will need to at...