XBox 360 Controller Programming in LabView

[Austin3324]

Greetings to all from team 3324 of Columbus, Ohio!

In our talking today about the control system we will be using, many (well, to be honest, most) of my fellow teammates thought that it would be a good idea to use an XBox 360 controller to control our robot since they are more familiar with it because of their gaming experience.

I tried to look up how to do it, but it generally came down to the older posts from the 2008/2009 game seasons where you still needed the USB Chicklet to control the robot using some sort of USB controller (like the XBox 360 controller). I managed to find a sample LabView project that appears to have all the code that I need and I was able to construct an alpha version of a control VI for its use. (I only really defined which button is which and all that. I'm still learning how to create my own VI and have it have both inputs and outputs.) If anyone has already gotten this to work (which I know someone has because at least one team at the Buckeye Regionals last year used them), I would be grateful for your help. If you haven't gotten it to work, then I hope that maybe I can help you with this post and my alpha version of my VI.

Thanks in advance!

Austin
Programmer, Team 3324