Wearables in FRC

[marshall]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

We use the rumble in our xbox 360 controller to notify the operator when we have a ball in the intake. The LED's on the robot change color too, but sometimes the LED's are hard to see across the field (aka Drawbridge).

-Mike

We've done that too. We'd like to do more but it's difficult at the moment though we have some ideas about how to make it happen.

Fun fact, in 2014 we were beta testing the new control system and one of the promised features was an update to enable rumble on controllers. It didn't come out when anticipated so we filed a bug report/request to get it added with a reason of "our driver is blind". I don't recall the answer we received but it was pretty funny at the time.