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Originally Posted by russell
Doesnt anyone use a one joystick drive type thing? By the way, how do you use five joysticks? Arent there only four ports? Or does each port have more than two axes?
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I have used the one joystick drive, I think some of the stuff you are describing with the controls being to touchy could be fixed on the programming side, by just changing the repsonsiveness of the controls.
As far as using more then 4 joysticks. This can be done through the use of a Y-Cable. For more info on Y cables they talk about them in the IFI OI manual and also in a whitepaper found here:
http://www.ifirobotics.com/docs/y-cable.pdf
There are just 2 axis on each one, but usualy in a 2 stick drive set up, all you are using for the drive is the y axis anyways. The wheel and buttons are still able to used on either joystick hooked to the Y cable due to the number of inputs on the OI ports.
For any drivers out there, get with your Opertaor Interface team, and programming team, and learn the capabilities of your operator interface, this can help you come up with ideas as you see them needing to be intergrated.