R/C car pistol grip style controller

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by yash101

I'd like to ask, but why do you want a pistol-grip controller? Is it easier to use? What is the advantage of using such a controller?Are you going to have Ackerman Steering? It seems cool!

What if you take apart a regular joystick, and build another enclosure for the pots? You can re-engineer the joystick to look and feel like piston-grip!

Think like an engineer! Think about how you can modify what you HAVE to get what you WANT!

The control system should match what the driver feels most comfortable with. Having played around with joysticks, gamepads, and steering wheels, I find the gamepad most intuitive to pick up - using one stick forward/backward, the other left/right - because I played around with [not very sophisticated] R/C cars when I was younger, then enough Forza kinda locked in that decision. People used to the grip-style controller from R/C cars will find that most natural to them.

Some people just prefer to use the joysticks, it makes more sense to them, or another form and control. If you use what feels most natural to you, when a time comes to make a split-second decision you don't have to think because your "instinct" will make a move - no need ot worry about if you're gonna go left or right, it will just happen.

On another note...why would you take a complicated route for no real gain? Rather than modifying a radically different setup into a makeshift R/C controller, I think it would be extremely more efficient to take an existing controller and just change that around to be coded to the functions of the robot. Yes you will have to take it apart, but it will be infinitely easier and you'll end up with a better final product anyway.