So we've all seen Wiimotes and Xbox controllers as alternatives to joysticks, and probably most of us know that Microsoft just released their Kinect system.
Adafruit (probably heard of them too
) offered a $2000 dollar bounty for the developer of the first open source driver for Kinect. Well, although M$ made it difficult,
somebody did it! I can't wait to see one of these on an FRC system, even if it's not for a competition.
http://groups.google.com/group/openkinect/?pli=1
Not sure if they've actually been released in the public yet due to M$ being control freaks...time will tell.