Driving Practice

[Maffalfa]

Originally Posted by GMadCoolGirl

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I suppose so

[logank013]

If possible, ask your programmer if they can program multiple types of joysticks. Our driver this year preferred using an xbox 360 controller for joysticks. Some drivers like the big joysticks used for things like airplane simulations. Also ask if you can have the style of joysticks programmed differently too. For instance, a normal tank drive can have different ways of driving it. Some prefer to have the left joystick control the left side front and back and the right joystick control the right side front and back. Our driver this year liked having the left joystick control front and back for both sides of the tank and liked having the right joystick control rotating clockwise and counterclockwise. Plus, it'd be a good little programming exercise.

[dirtbikerxz]

Get a controller and program controls that you like to use, not what your mentor or programmer says is the smart thing to do. Obviously listen to their advice, but if you don't like it do what you like. You are the driver, you need to use controls and a controller that you like.

I personally used a Xbox One Controller last year, and this year I got myself an Xbox one elite controller, purely because the paddles on the back make a couple of things easier to do and remember placements.

[lark95]

Originally Posted by fargus111111111

As far as the best things to practice, it depends on what you are already good at, but the most important thing that we look for in a driver is smoothness, especially under time pressure. Ideally in a match the robot never stops moving unless it is shooting or loading and those should be very brief stops. I have told many people trying out for driver to slow down, don't try to go all out right away. A good way to practice this is to drive at demonstrations, especially ones with small children, you are concerned about hitting them, so you wind up practicing slow movements.

This is very good advice