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Originally Posted by Dhill098
This year with used PS3 controllers. The driver was notified through rumble that 10 seconds were left in the match so he would know to score the current stack. I was the operator this year, and our robots mechanisms and stacker are completely pneumatic. The operator controller rumbled when our tanks fell below 60 PSI.
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That's so cool.
Like others said, we also used LEDs for driver feedback. They indicated whether the stack and can were secure as well as indicating whether the robot was in automatic or manual stacking mode. We also had a gyro-assisted drive which made movements feel more precise (to me at least).
Automation always makes an operator's life easier as well. At Dallas, we basically had a shift key on the operator gamepad because he had about 2.5 layers of commands but only one of each button. By the time TRI came around he was only really pushing 5 or so buttons (3 for stacking, 2 for intake).