Posted by Mark Garver at 1/24/2001 9:56 PM EST
Student on team #68, Truck Town Terror, from Waterford Kettering/OSMTech Academy and General Motors Truck Group.
In Reply to: Could use some help with joysticks . . .
Posted by Dan on 1/24/2001 9:51 PM EST:
I can speak as a veteran member of the Truck Town Terror (#68) team, there is no good way that we have found. We run into the same problem amost every time we run our robot.
: As a team, we have had problems with the joysticks for the past 2 years (since we've existed

). They keep wanting to 're-calibrate' themselves, i.e. the center, and extreme values vary from use to use. To combat this effect we have tried duct tape on the trims and adding buffer regions in software for a 'neutral zone' in the center of the joysticks' axes. Can any other veteran teams give us a hand in telling us a better method for this?