DDR anyone?

[Blacknight]

I used to be better, but am building back up.
Can still struggle through 8 feet but need to get back to my 9'er
I know ddr is a pastime for many of the ppl on SPAM and we played it for about 4 hours straight at our last competetion

[Donut]

I wish our team had that many DDRers. There are a few of us on our team, but not enough in my mind. We were talking about being weird and seeing if we could drive the robot with a DDR pad sometime.

Does anyone know of competitions in Arizona? I'm interested in competing sometime once I build up a little more at it. I can do most 9's and am working on 10's (I've done Max 300 once on a crappy soft pad, never done a 10 besides that). Of course I'll still lose to one of the other members of my team.

[JonBell]

Originally Posted by Donut

I wish our team had that many DDRers. There are a few of us on our team, but not enough in my mind. We were talking about being weird and seeing if we could drive the robot with a DDR pad sometime.

Shouldn't be hard at all, just cut open the wire and splice the wires onto a joystick cable (or for some of us, not cut /anything/ ), you would probably want to set them all up as digital inputs though (And then you could have a joystick hooked up too for axes).

Too bad that it might be a bit too large to fit the rules

[Donut]

That might take up a rather annoyingly large amount of your digital IO's though. The 16 we had dissapeared in no time with our drive killing switches and automatic arm position switches. It'd still be funny to do though.

[Rombus]

Originally Posted by Donut

That might take up a rather annoyingly large amount of your digital IO's though. The 16 we had dissapeared in no time with our drive killing switches and automatic arm position switches. It'd still be funny to do though.

Except they wouldnet be on the robot itself, it would be on the OI, and you could sacrafice 2 controller inputs and get atleast 8 digital i/o's (4 arrows, 4 other buttions on the soft pads)

[DDRAngelKurumi]

Originally Posted by JonBell

Shouldn't be hard at all, just cut open the wire and splice the wires onto a joystick cable (or for some of us, not cut /anything/ ), you would probably want to set them all up as digital inputs though (And then you could have a joystick hooked up too for axes).

Too bad that it might be a bit too large to fit the rules

Now that would be fun!

[Donut]

I will say if anyone can try this DDR pad to drive a robot, remember to hook up the arrows to digital IO's only. If you use joystick axis you run into the minor problem of only being able to move a joystick in one direction at a time, so the arrows up & down/left & right can't be switched between easily.

An average pad will take up at least 4 digital IO's, 6 or 8 if you wanted to use more buttons. That sounds pretty good for driving, now just for the annoying coding part. Would you want the up and down arrows to control the robot going forward/backwards, or would you want the robot to be driven from the driver's perspective (push left arrow, robot goes to the left side of the field)?

[Enterprize]

Driving a robot with a ddr pad, would, quite simply, own all. not particularly effective, but gets the mad style points ^^

Anywho, I play ddr quite a bit. I dont practice as much as I should, but as long as I'm not dying of lack of sleep or hunger, etc, I can usually tackle 9-steppers with little difficulty (but some heavy breathing XD). Need to work on my speed/endurance before being able to take down those gosh-darn 10-steppers though...