Team 869's Custom Controller

[Rapt0r9]

We've never really done anything in terms of custom controllers. We did make a really cool board two years ago with strobes, cathodes, and diamond plate, but we've always used the old joysticks. This year I was going to do some work with the Chicklet, but got tired of waiting to be able to order it. I decided to make a custom controller for the secondary driver. Once we finished preping the aluminum box, we mounted a handle, db15 connector, fuse, and a molex connector, for cathodes. Ironically, the only colors we could find for cathodes this small were purple or green and we picked green. Our larger cathodes in the joystick box are blue, so it looks nice together. We just finished writing all of the code for this Monday night, but haven't gotten around to taking pictures.

Basically, there are four leds, two red and two green, which are used to display twelve different bot statuses. Then there is another blue led to show when a switch on the box is on. There is also an led built into the red safety switch and we have it wired to turn on when the switch is engaged. There are also bi-directional leds by the connectors (db15 and molex) to show that the polarity of the connection is right.