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Re: Tips for first-year programmers

Over the years we've used a number of different controllers. And every year, I have the programming team sit down with the drivers to work out how they want to control the robot. We test drive with xbox and joysticks, and even one year a steering wheel.

We tend to always end up with joysticks for tank driving, and an xbox controller for co-pilot operations. The single xbox controller gives us a lot of flexibility with regards to buttons, and just ease of use for the co-pilot.