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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

What did you use to connect all your switches and buttons? Was it a custom board that all went to 1 usb connected to the driver station laptop or did you use a COTS board?

I believe it was the former but I'm not involved in the electrical stuff but our main guy for electronics is on CD so I'll be sure he responds.

I personally do not like the custom boards because it isn't worth the added complication, we have had problems in the past with these breaking and then having issues we think are robot issues that aren't. Also if you just have a gamepad or joystick your driver can start getting used to it from day 1. In the last 4 years we have made our own boards and 2 of those years we ended up essentially not using the boards. 1 year because the board broke every other match and the other year because the "ergonomically correct" board was way less natural than a joystick and a bunch of driver practice was wasted as a result.