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Unread 21-01-2007, 17:42
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Re: Rulings for modifying joysticks in 2007?

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Originally Posted by K.Porter View Post
I'm surprised that no one has come up with plans to modify a Wii controller.

That would sure be interesting, and expensive. (although, perfectly legal...)
The problem with the Wii controller is since it uses the accelerometers, it's not just like an absolute position value like conventional joysticks. Even wired it probably needs a preprocessor to convert it into useful data. Do I think it's impossible? Definitely not. I really hope a few teams have the resources to do it this year because it would be very interesting to see it incorporated into FIRST. I know that I would love to work with integrating the Wii in the offseason, but that's a bit aways... so I'm hoping some brilliant minds somewhere are working on it over these 6 weeks.
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