[Tom Fairchild]

Our control box last year was a total mess, so this year I decided to work hard at making a good looking one. One joystick does the driving (if anything I don't want to have to wire a Y cable like last year which is what we would have to do if we wanted 2 joystick) and a switch box does all the rest. Made that out of a transparent blue and white material - looks really cool. For functions, we have 2 two position switches for front and rear latches (which are passive latches, aka, one position is to release, the other is to stay latched or be in the correct position to latch). Three position momentary switches do our elevator, shock absorber manual controlls, and collector height. A regular three position controlls which end of the robot is the 'front' with the middle position being neutral - great while working on the robot and you don't want it to move but still have functionality. Single push button does our dropdown (all automated) and another puts our ball collector at approximately the correct height (pots aren't perfect :-/ ). Finally, one last three position switch does our collector wheel and a two position red on/off switch is a sensor override.

~Tom Fairchild~, who was proud to use all the binary variables in the code w/o using a Y cable.