[Donut]

I will say if anyone can try this DDR pad to drive a robot, remember to hook up the arrows to digital IO's only. If you use joystick axis you run into the minor problem of only being able to move a joystick in one direction at a time, so the arrows up & down/left & right can't be switched between easily.

An average pad will take up at least 4 digital IO's, 6 or 8 if you wanted to use more buttons. That sounds pretty good for driving, now just for the annoying coding part. Would you want the up and down arrows to control the robot going forward/backwards, or would you want the robot to be driven from the driver's perspective (push left arrow, robot goes to the left side of the field)?