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Re: Driver Station Suggestions

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Originally Posted by Photo Storm View Post
All the feedback that is given is great and will definitely factor into the new driver station. I just have one more question about this. The group I am working with wants to have alot of buttons off the controller and on the board. These auxiliary buttons could be useful like for an e-stop but how many do you really need to incorporate into the deign? The new station is being built with practicality in the future in mind and our team in the past years has used only a driver. This year we used a joystick but I think our team prefers controllers.
We never use auxiliary buttons. We have this nice briefcase which an artistically inclined student painted.

http://www.igknighters.com/Robotics/...l/DSC_0282.jpg

When we get to the drivers station we just open the case and take off the lid. The joysticks are velcroed to the top of the lid so that we set it down and have a nice joystick set up all ready. Then we take the game pad out of the case and open up the laptop and we are good to go. All of our controls (except E-Stop) are on either the joysticks, gamepad or both so we never have to create auxiliary buttons.
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