[Schneidie]

Originally Posted by Team449

First off, I know this question is being asked far too late in the build time then it should be, but it was not noticed by any of our team members until recently.

In the FIRST KOP, the two joysticks that were provided are both Right Handed joysticks. What we would like to confirm, is that we should indeed have 2 Right Handed joy sticks. We have looked and found no documentation anywhere indicating that this is a mistake, in fact the pictures in the checklist show 2 Right Handed joysticks, and there is only one part number for the joysticks.

Besides confirming that this is not a mistake, and that all the teams were given 2 Right Handers, we are wondering if anyone knows the reason FIRST would hand out right handed joysticks. Could it be an oversight that teams were given only right handed joysticks, when, to the best of our knowledge, using two joysticks for driving is a widely used control system?

Using two right handed joysticks is certainly a small inconvenience, but it is still beyond us why we would get two right handed joysticks, as opposed to a right and a left, or even two ambidextrous joysticks.

If anyone has any information about why we are sent two right handed sticks, or what we can do/could have done to get joysticks that make robot control even this little bit easier, we would greatly appreciate it. Also if you have a link to where information on this might be, we would appreciate it very much.

Yeha, the two righties are correct and that's how it was in last year's OI too.