Driver station components for 2015

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by virtuald

We use a laptop with a touchscreen for robot controls.

Using a touch screen as a robot control device strikes me as being less inconvenient than using a mouse, but only slightly. You still need to take your attention off the robot in order to take an action. I believe physical switches and buttons and knobs are much more appropriate, because you can use them by feel rather than by sight.

[Jim.D]

I've played a bit with the 4200 prototype board. It doesn't seem to support the USB component that would make it an easy to use board for the driver station. I have a PSoC5 board from SchmartBoards that works well as a 16 button + 2 analog ports. You could add more but I using up some of the pins with an LCD display.

I think you can use any board that you can make emulate a HID Joystick. I think that could be done with the old PSoC 3 kits.