Racing Wheels

[Ari423]

Originally Posted by mastachyra

A good application for the racing wheel would be a turret shooter. The mechanism could turn to the desired location and return to center when you let go.

...or you could just use a potentiometer.

[mastachyra]

Originally Posted by Ari423

...or you could just use a potentiometer.

Yeah, having the bigger wheel helps with precision. and having other buttons attached is useful. No need to reinvent the wheel! Pun intended!

[Ari423]

Originally Posted by mastachyra

Yeah, having the bigger wheel helps with precision. and having other buttons attached is useful. No need to reinvent the wheel! Pun intended!

I personally don't like the idea of the buttons' positions changing as the wheel rotates, but to each his (or her) own.

[jijiglobe]

Our team is strongly against using racing wheels to drive the robot, however I've talked to a couple teams (846 and 1538) that used racing wheels to drive their robots. From what they said, using that as a controller takes a bit of getting used to, especially if your driver is used to the simple tank layout. It's definitely worth playing out with different control schemes. Remember that just because you bought yourself a wheel doesn't mean you should necessarily use it for every single FRC game.