[kuraikou]

Pistol grips are probably the controller that I would recommend to any and every FRC team, they are extremely easy to use, offer great control, and are relatively easy to set up.

For our 2013 season we used a pistol grip controller that we bought from a local hobby shop and took all its guts out. We then took a game pad circuit board and wired all the pistol grip controls to the axis on the game pad so that the right axis was controlled by the turny bit on the pistol grip and the left stick was controlled by the trigger part of the pistol grip, so essentially it was a arcade controller with a different shell. We then used the rest of the buttons on the circuit board to control our shooter.

If you need more info our programmer who worked a lot on this would probably be happy to help you.