[EricPalmatier]

Originally Posted by Taylor

I voted for the conventional joysticks simply because I think they translate to sponsors, parents, and faculty (read: Adults) better. Modern video games, for better or worse, have negative connotations in most adults' minds; the joysticks give more of an aeronautical and conventional feel to the controls.

while I concur with this opinion, I also think that the auronautical aspect of the controllers(think pulling back is up, pushing in is down) can be confusing to some who dont have past experiece in flight simulators or playing videogames like Xplane. As far as sponsers are concerned, I suppose you would have to look at who your sponsers are and determine if the physical control system you design is inside their expectations. I feel that if the control system is built in a mannar that still connotates education and innovation, you can still utilize the gamepads. It would appear that most of the innovation for controller systems are going to be on the software side of things now, changing and manipulating the GUI of the classmate to give realtime information back to the drivers in cool and innovative ways. thoughts?