Cool Operator Interfaces

[EmilioM]

Originally Posted by Adam Shapiro

Heh, actually I posted that picture. It's their design from 2004 (see my post above). I thought it was strange that I couldn't find it anywhere on CD-Media so I posted the one image I was able to find. It was really a cool design to see iin action.

Haha, sorry... Must give credit where credit is due... Thanks for posting the pic Adam.

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by EmilioM

Dont forget 1538 - The Holy Cows. They had their OI in a briefcase. They would simply carry it to the driver station, simply open it up, and simply plug it in. (you catch my drift - simplicity) It was very aesthetically pleasing too, what with cow print on the inside and cool blue-lit silver knobs. It was accompanied by a cowprint-clad steering wheel too.

You know what would be even simpler (more simple)? An OI that you don't even have to open up.

We simply carry ours up, and simply plug it in. No opening involved.

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by Scott Morgan

We also used two pieces of aluminum angle to limit the horizontal movement of the arm. The distance is scaled so that our arm will always comply to the 72 inch rule.

Also I had seen some arcade joysticks at All Electronics that I was planning to use for the drive controls, but when I went back they were all gone.

Are you sure they were variable joysticks, alot of arcade style ones have just tactile switches in them.

-JOhn

[EmilioM]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

You know what would be even simpler (more simple)? An OI that you don't even have to open up.

We simply carry ours up, and simply plug it in. No opening involved.

True true. We have one along those lines... We carry ours over and plug it in just like you... However, pragmaticism aside, the briefcase 1538 had added to the cool-factor in my opinion. Plus, it looked mighty clean

Ps. I believe it is "more simple" But then again I build robots, english isn't necessarily my forte lol.

[rsilverstein]

This is one side of our OI.

We have buttons, switches, and knob.
The other side is on white plastic and has our two joysticks. As you can see, the Computer Display thing is in the middle, seen in clear plastic. We have red neon lights the shine up through there.

It's designed so you can slide the buttons and joysticks out and switch their orientation depending on what side of the field you are lined up on (so the driver is always closest to the center).