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Originally Posted by rsilverstein
Everything so far has been focused on the robots... what about the OIs?
The coolest ones I have seen have been:
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They had a 3-part arm and for their OI, a scale replica of that arm on a platform. The had potentiometers at each joint so the controller would just move the model arm on the OI however he pleased, and the actual robot would do the exact same thing. They had markings for the different heights of the rack too.
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We also used two pieces of aluminum angle to limit the horizontal movement of the arm. The distance is scaled so that our arm will always comply to the 72 inch rule.
Also I had seen some arcade joysticks at All Electronics that I was planning to use for the drive controls, but when I went back they were all gone.