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Re: Alternate Joystick Controllers

Another option to purchasing a new joystick is to enhance the performance of the ones provided in the kit. The joysticks provided by FIRST proportionalize poor handling, but there is a current solution to that... there are several teams that use programming to convert the linear curve of a joystick into an exponential one, which supposedly "smoothens out" the joystick. Works like a charm....

Check out a white paper our team wrote on this:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...le&paperid=280
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