[EricPalmatier]

I would say providing a choice to your drive team prior to the end of the build season would be the most logical choice. However, We went with two attack joysticks and a dual action controller(for the manipulator) and That has worked well in the past(for us). This year more than ever I really wanted to try and have a driver station that utilized just two dual action controllers(or PS3 controllers), since video games are played much in the same way, it would be a transparent transition for the drive team to go from their past/current gaming experience to driving and manipulating objects with the robot( as long as the buttons are assigned in a logical, and dare I say, video game-esk mannor).
With the two joysticks on the controller, there are so many different option for configuring the drive schema, as well as giving the driver the ability to be more precise(micro-thumb movments are way more pricise then clumbsy wrist movements that have to cover a longer distance to translate the same amount of registered movement). Just my .02, but I know that I will be playing arround with this in the off season, trying to see which methods work the best and are seamless enough so that almost anyone can just pick it up and controll the robot with ease(hopefully).