Re: How many Joysticks are you using?
 

4, two for the drive and two for the arm/catapult. We ran four last year too, and it got a bit crowded on the small control panel we had (we hate lugging around massive 'air-plane wing' control boards). So, this year the OI is on a small central piece of Lexan and each operator gets their sticks mounted on half a skimboard. All three parts are separable and will individually be held in place on the shelf by their own bits of velcro.

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We are using either 2 or 3- 2 real joysticks for tank driving (but the driver can hold down the thumb button to make it single stick) and a joystick we created using an Easy Button that controls the other parts of the robot.

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We are using 1 joystick for the chassis driver and an array of buttons for the secondary operator

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Three

Two for the driver, one controls throttle the other steering
One of the operator, controls the arm

Buttons on the driver joysticks control shifting
Buttons on the operator joystick control the manipulator

and of course some lovely arcade buttons for the operator

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We're using 2 joysticks from our Xbox 360 Controller.
Left/Right Joysticks = Left/Right Drive Systems
Left/Right Triggers for Mast
Left/Right Bumpers for "Rubber Saw"
Y/A for Mast Lock
Back/Start for Expanding/Contracting our Chassis!
Start Button = Turbo mode



-Fondy Fire

Re: How many Joysticks are you using?
 

We experimented with two stick driving this year - for the first time since 2002. But, per our drivers' input, we are using a single stick for skid steering. We also provide another stick for the operator to use as a vernier on our two link arm. The arm itself has 8 pre-sets, that are selected with a knob.

Re: How many Joysticks are you using?
 

We're presently using three; two for drive and one for the forks (and shooter, should we succeed in rigging that up at Chesapeake).

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We are using two Xbox controllers but they each have two joysticks so is that zero or four?

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We're using three again.
One for the "first driver" (moves the base of the robot)
One for the "second driver" (moves the shoulder, elbow of the robot)
We've got some extra switches, too.

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1 joystick for our mecanum wheel movement of forward, sideways, backward, diagnal.

2 pushbuttons for turning

1 3-way switch for our arm going up, stop, and down

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4- two for driving
one for claw
one for arm

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We've got 2 for drive (arcade-style) and 1 for controlling the arm and grabber. We have some preset arm positions, but the joystick will probably take the brunt of the use.

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Xbox 360 baby!

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360 Xbox controllers?:rolleyes:
Seems like over kill to me.

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3

two flight sticks for steering and shifting.

one kit joystick for the arm operations