[Mike Copioli]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

In this case, the first thing I would do is calibrate the Chicklet. Follow the directions in the manual here. If you calibrate your robot code or Victors to match whatever the joystick is outputting now you could create a dangerous situation. Consider this: if your Chicklet is outputting a value of 110 when the joystick is centered, and you calibrate to this, then if the Chicklet gets unplugged (setting the joystick value to 127), your robot will drive forward. As a rule of thumb, you always want to start by calibrating your joystick such that it outputs 127 when it is centered.

I could not agree with this more. Keep neutral 127. The Chicklets are production calibrated with this in mind. This means that when the device(gamepad/joystick) is unplugged from the Chicklet, the Chicklet will set its outputs to 127. This is only valid if your device returns to center. The purpose of the user calibration is to correct for inaccuracies in the device(gamepad/joystick). User calibration should be performed with any new device and that device should be matched and used with the chicklet that it was calibrated with.