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Re: 2007 Robot Controller

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Originally Posted by Tazlikesrobots
I heard that the new controller will have the capability of using USB joysticks, and the radio receiver may be internal.
The problem with USB joysticks is that, unless there is a clever way around it, the RC needs to be a USB host to communicate- and even worse, may have to store several drivers just to support a reasonable number of joysticks. Which is a far different hardware story than a usb slave, as implementing a USB programming port would mean. It's a nice idea, but it poses a very steep set of obstacles to climb.


I would go out on a limb and say that FIRST would likely have us hack a USB joystick to gameport before they got IFI to develop the support. Additionally, if you wanted to support easy potentiometer/switch interfaces that teams construct on their own, you'd need either some gameport "ports", or a seperate analog-USB dongle to mediate.
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