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We have a Logitech DualAction that has served us well (It competed in the 2008, 2010, and 2011 seasons). We like it a lot.

We also use a mix of custom boxes and Xbox-360 pads for the operators. We used to always make custom boxes until the awful Cypress issues we had in 2010 (note the "emergency" buttons on the drivers controller), so in 2011 we tried to use a 360 but ran out of buttons and ended up making a control box anyway (utilizing a cut up Logitech Precision gamepad instead of the Cypress board).

I attached the control maps from the driver in 2010 and the driver and operator in 2011. The operator in 2011 also had a control box which stuck to the velcro on the operator shelf, which included autonomous selection, the score-low button, and various unused colored light indicator buttons.


In our hunt for the perfect gamepad, we found that the Logitech F310 gamepad can be used as an exact replacement for the 360 controller for FRC robots, as all of the buttons/axis mappings match up exactly.