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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port
A GUITAR HERO CONTROLLER!! come on how cool would that be.

To move the robot you play Smoke on the Water and to operate the arm you play the riff from Crazy Train.

The whammy bar can be the claw grabber.

And to make the robot spontaneously combust you play any Dragonforce solo.

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A GUITAR HERO CONTROLLER!! come on how cool would that be.

To move the robot you play Smoke on the Water and to operate the arm you play the riff from Crazy Train.

The whammy bar can be the claw grabber.

And to make the robot spontaneously combust you play any Dragonforce solo.
I was talking about that with my sister. lol.

And a couple of years ago we had a bunch of joke ways to control the robot. Like guitar, keyboard, beatboxing, and my favorite, turn tables.

That's right. You scratch records to drive your robot. Haha. So good.
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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port
Keep in mind that you are still limited in as to how many buttons are available to you even though you are plugging into usb it is really still limited by gamport capabilities.
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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port
A PS3 controller would be nice! It has USB!
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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port
The PS2 Eye Toy, that'd be great.
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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port
one 3 letter word...

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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port
our team is thinking about the wired 360 controller.... it seems like a much better idea than tryig to fiddle with multipe joysticks and multiple drivers controlling different parts of the robot
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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port
ok, list of things that sound cool, regardless of FIRST legality or interface (because denial is awesome):

wii-mote
DDR mat
eyetoy
keyboard FPS style
xbox 360
anyone else?
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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port
WII mote is powered sorry to burst your bubble.
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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port
I think either the EyeCandy camera or the microphone from karaoke revolution... if only.... [sigh]
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haha, heck yes... Dragonforce! i think guitar hero would be a sweet controller but the first thought that came to my mind was DDR mats... just for some random capabilities ya know? that would be saweeeeet
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Yeah the only problem with that is if your drives team can't dance.
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