How do you drive your robot?

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How do you drive your robot?

View Poll Results: what kind of controller do you use?
Joystck(s)	112	93.33%
Steering Wheel(s)	10	8.33%
Video Game controller(s) (please explain below)	7	5.83%
Other (please explain below)	8	6.67%
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01-05-2006, 12:18

Billfred

...and you can't! teach! that!

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Re: How do you drive your robot?

Three robots have come out of 1293. Bob, Ockham, and Chomp have all been driven by two joysticks, one for drive and one for the mechanism, open-loop.

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