How are you going to operate you're robot?

[RDD]

We are going to use:
1 steering wheel
1 f16 joystick
and we might add 1 special switch box for the ramp.

[Matthew.Kurek]

Our robot's base chassis is an omnidrive, complete with forklift, a gyro and a big claw. There are going to be 2 operators, one to drive and one to manipulate the tubes (unless they changed the design again...). Our gyro is to keep the robot on course, so if it's bumped, it will try to counter the bumping. our loose battery has been giving us quite a bit of strife... it mucks up the gyro and causes spurious movements.

[elphie1990]

We're using an X-Box 360 controller both to drive and manipulate. Our driver tried it this morning (he was originally totally against using it) and found he loved driving with it.

[triggerhappy336]

Two logitech playstation controller spinoffs, and a big red button. Anyone wanna guess what the red button does?

[thefro526]

Our control panel has changed from my previous post. Me and TdorTheBnator built one with four joysticks. Two for the driver and two for the operator.

[b-ammo]

Originally Posted by triggerhappy336

Two logitech playstation controller spinoffs, and a big red button. Anyone wanna guess what the red button does?

Says "Ah, that was easy..."????

2 Xbox 360 controllers - found that using thumbs is much faster than using whole arms w/ joysticks (less movement).

[triggerhappy336]

Originally Posted by b-ammo

Says "Ah, that was easy..."????

2 Xbox 360 controllers - found that using thumbs is much faster than using whole arms w/ joysticks (less movement).

No actually, allot of teams have Staples buttons, ours just eliminates all the other bots on the field with laser technology. Or it shuts off the suction cup and motors and drops the lift, either or.

[kaszeta]

2-axis CH joystick with stiff springs for the driver.

Logitech USB joystick with 3-axes and 8 buttons for the arm operator.

[efoote868]

Driver has option of 2 joy or 1 joy mode, along with change of view (reverse what is front, what is back). The arm is controlled by 4 buttons and a switch... the code takes care of pretty much everything.

We're still having issues with some P and PID loops, so hopefully we'll get those fixed at the competition.

[kaszeta]

Originally Posted by efoote868

We're still having issues with some P and PID loops, so hopefully we'll get those fixed at the competition.

There's no finer engineering than pit engineering.

[lenergyrlah]

We have an xbox controller for our driving & a combination for ramp deployment.

We built a model of our arm with potentiometers to control our arm.

[FunkyRatDemon]

We at 753 are using Electronic Pixies, they're tethered so they're legal

Were more worried about our code, if not working properly, were putting the mascot (me) on a spinney chair w/ a broom to score and move around

[Billfred]

Four bone-stock KOP joysticks. Simple, modestly effective, and free.

We've tinkered with adding some custom stuff, but we'll save that for Palmetto.

[nautica]

We're using an xbox 360 controller for the drive, and a control panel with buttons to control our lift, manipulator and ramp.

[Jeff K.]

Very carefully


We're using 2 slightly modified kop joysticks for the drive and a 1/10 scale arm to operate the arm