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Joysticks club 2014

This is a club for all the teams who use joysticks on their driver station.

316 loves them so much, we have THREE joysticks.

Everyone who doesn't use joysticks is obviously inferior.

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Driver 1 (driver of the chassis) uses 2 joysticks and a pedal. The pedal is made from an altered joystick and alot of 3d printing

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Originally Posted by Samwaldo (Post 1373196)

Driver 1 (driver of the chassis) uses 2 joysticks and a pedal. The pedal is made from an altered joystick and a lot of 3d printing

Joysticks of any form are enjoyed by we distinguished members of the Joystick club!

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4909 uses 4. Operator could have used a game pad but liked the joysticks better.

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Originally Posted by dubiousSwain (Post 1373190)

Everyone who doesn't use joysticks is obviously inferior.

pretty bold statement there I'm sure there are a few teams that would reasonably argue otherwise! but, count us in the club!

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I prefer smartphone control.

Just kidding, I definitely believe in the power of the holy joystick!

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Gamepads have joysticks on them. ;)

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I control my robots with the power of code.

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Originally Posted by JohnFogarty (Post 1373215)

I control my robots with the power of code.

So you have a fully autonomous robot? Impressive.

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I know that the lead mentor on my team loves joysticks, but every student on the team wants a gamepad. Every time during build season when I ask what are we using, when I'm programming controls, a whole argument ensues and I'm caught in the middle of it, because I don't care.

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How many modern games outside of flight simulators use those giant joysticks anymore anyway?

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Originally Posted by JohnFogarty (Post 1373271)

How many modern games outside of flight simulators use those giant joysticks anymore anyway?

Doesn't matter! After all, our robot can fly

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We've got two joysticks: an XYZ for our driver and an XY for our operator. Field-oriented drive with the three-axis is so simple, we'll probably never use anything else with a holonomic drive.

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Originally Posted by Kevin Phan (Post 1373264)

That's a switch from our team. As the software mentor, I was looking to expand horizons and brought in a Logitech GamePad. The kids were confused about where we were going. I pointed out we would let the drive team decide what worked best for them. More puzzled looks; we can decide? (yes, a basic real world mentor moment; the pointy end of the stick gets to pick their weapons) My lead software engineer (he earned that title) had the 'bot set up for both. He was also the manipulator driver, and that task was the one that had the choice between a joystick and gamepad (he chose the latter).

We are contemplating testing the theory the one driver can effectively control the robot with one hand using a SpaceMouse.

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Our team considered a Leap Motion at one point, but realized its accuracy and precision paled in comparison to the mighty joystick!