Control System, Joystick mod?

[Nate Smith]

Originally posted by Wayne Doenges
[b]According to the rules last year you couldn't modify the joysticks. Team 234 should have been told that they had to change there control.
Someone on Team 234 said that they "held their breath" everytime a judge stopped by. But they won the innovation awards, so it must have been legal.

If I remember correctly, the original rules last year said no modifications to the joysticks, but FIRST removed this stipulation in one of the updates, saying you could, but if it was damaged beyond use, it would not be replaced free of charge.

We would like to use a glove to control part of our robot but some of the things we want to use are not in the AHL. But than again, I didn't see a backpack listed last year.

FIRST has always said that structurally, there were no limitations on the operator controls. The only things they do limit are how things can be connected electrically. I don't have an exact rule in front of me, but that is how I remember it...