What do you use to control your robot?

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by bEdhEd

We thought it would be logical to use an Xbox 360 wired Guitar Hero controller, because the neck has five buttons in line, allowing for five pre-set elevator positions.

Actually, the logical solution would be to use a numeric keypad. But "Elevator Hero" is totally wicked.

[TikiTech]

We change from year to year depending on student preference.

The last two years we have been using the Logitech dual action game controller for the driver.

Last year the students took apart an Xbox 360 controller and made a custom control box that sits next to the console with lots of buttons and LED swag for the secondary drive to control various subsystems.

I will post some pictures when I get back to the school.

Aloha!

[bEdhEd]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Actually, the logical solution would be to use a numeric keypad. But "Elevator Hero" is totally wicked.

We thought it was logical since they're in a row and serves as a more graphical representation of the elevator as a set of controls. The different colors are a bit more fun than numbers too.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by bEdhEd

We thought it was logical since they're in a row and serves as a more graphical representation of the elevator as a set of controls. The different colors are a bit more fun than numbers too.

I get it, I like it, I may steal, uh, borrow it! I just consider this a "creative" rather than a "logical" solution. Unfortunately, the GH controllers here at the house are both wireless .

[Bewizardment]

Right now, our weapons officer/co-driver wants to use a turntable to control the elevators manually, but the programmers are saying the PID control scheme will work just fine with four levels for the elevator to snap to. I, personally, think a turntable would be super cool.

[Whippet]

Andy Baker once won an FRC regional... driving with only the Guitar Hero guitar.


(Sorry, I couldn't help myself.)

[AustinH]

We will be using this for the first time this year:



It takes some...interesting...workarounds to convert MIDI to Joystick, but when you need more buttons than you can count, it's perfect.

As a bonus, the LEDs in the buttons are programmable and can change colors on the fly...

[Lij2015]

I use a PS4 controller, would recommend!

[JohnFogarty]

2 Logitech F310 Gamepads. Same as what is commonly used in FTC.

[highlander]

Usually one joystick for the driver, and a controller for the operator.

[Jay Burnett]

Originally Posted by Lij2015

I use a PS4 controller, would recommend!

That dualshock 4 tho... But how would one connect that to the driver station? It doesn't have wires, so is it Bluetooth?

[pmangels17]

We use two joysticks to drive all of our robots (all tank style, one weird scheme for the crab drive bot we have). We started with that scheme way back when, and we've since just kept with it. The operator (co-pilot, gunner, whatever you call it) usually uses a joystick plus an additional joystick and/or a custom control box. It lets us use the same control board every year, and we can control a number of robots without changing anything but the occasional USB peripheral.

[FlamingSpork]

We use psychic brain waves and two Extreme 3D Joysticks to control our robot (even though one of the drivers wants a Nintendo 64 controller).

A guitar controller sounds really cool for this.

[MrForbes]

Two logitech game pads. We might get our custom control box done, or we might not. That would run the mechanisms, but we'd still drive with the gamepad.

[Marjory Frosty]

CDV (FRC47 2000 bot), my first year in FRC, and my first year as a driver. Now she sits in my house, THANKS Martus.