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Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

My favorite buttons are https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9336 They have amazing tactile feel. Unfortunately, they are a bit tall for our driver station setup.

We've been using https://store.djtechtools.com/products/arcade-buttons . They trigger slightly easier than I'd like, but they are short and robust.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the arcade style buttons. They are quite large, and the actuation force is a bit low. This can result in accidental presses in an intense match, and you don't have great physical feedback of a successful press.

Our team spent about three weeks ordering various switches from different manufacturers and finally settled on NKK UB pushbuttons (Here's one of them: http://www.digikey.com/product-detai...02-ND/1007159). They are a bit more expensive, but they have a great feel, and come in illuminated varieties. When you press them, you know it. There is a wide variety of colors and styles available on DigiKey.

We used the TI Stellaris Launchpad last year to run our CCI rather than some of the older solutions. There is a great post on how to use it here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=122587

The source code is also available in TI's TivaWare, so you can even go make any changes you want. We used it to also generate PWMs for LEDs to back light our CCI itself! I wish I had a better photo of the finished CCI, but here's a quick shot I took of it when it was finally assembled, the night before our first regional.



With the TI board, we didn't have any issues at all. If you have any questions regarding our build, please let me know.