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Re: Is this controller legal?

We did this for Logomotion. We made a custom "arm" that a student would strap on to his own. He would wear it during autonomous and hold the plug in one hand. Once the teleop portion of the match started he would then plug it in and use the arm to control our arm and jaw-like-thing.
We did have to have some code (as you probably assumed) stopping the arm from freaking out that there is no input device connected. It was some simple like. If "custom arm" wasn't plugged in, use the joystick. Now getting the computer to recognize whether it's plugged in or not is a different story, but we might have done things the long and hard way haha.

Goodluck! It's always nice to see teams use some other means of controlling the robot other than 2 Joysticks/1 Gamepad.
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