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Re: number of joysticks

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Originally Posted by mgreenley
On a quick sidebar, consider a PS2 controller unless you've really got your heart set on an Xbox controller. We found that to convert it all you need to do is cut the plug off and solder the pins into the corect config. for the OI plugs. Word of advice though, having driven all four of our robots, I prefer a joystick to a gamepad. (That the KoP joysticks are only for right-handed people and I am..erm..was left handed is a completly different story).
definitely agreed, we could have done the ps2 controller last year, but unless you need about 8 buttons, there really isn't that much of a point, i still prefer the old black joysticks over anything else.
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