Xbox 360 Wireless controllers?

[Jon Stratis]

I can't find a rule that would directly prohibit them on the operator console, so long as they communicated only with the driver station. Some related rules:

Section 4.3.1 (Events section of the Administrative Manual)

Teams are not allowed to set up their own 802.11a/b/g/n (2.4GHz or 5GHz) wireless communication (access points or ad-hoc networks) in the venue

R55

One D-Link DAP-1522 is the only permitted device for communicating to and from the Robot during the match. All signals must originate from the Operator Console and be transmitted to the Robot via the official Arena hardware. No other form of wireless communications shall be used to communicate to, from or within the Robot (e.g. radio modems from previous FIRST competitions and Bluetooth devices are not permitted on the Robot during competition).

The intent of limiting wireless communications is to help ensure proper field to robot communication. An excess of wireless usage will cause communication problems, which might negatively impact your team or those around you. I would strongly urge you to use a wired controller in order to avoid any potential issues a wireless one might cause.

Since the intent and the letter of the rules here seems to be at odds, you should use the Q&A to ask the GDC if you want to go forward with it. Make sure you stress that the communication would be between the controller and the Driver Station, so they don't just point you to R55.