I was wondering what the most interesting control station you’ve ever seen is.
What made it awesome?
Whose was it?
Where did you see it?
1768 has a really long one with a custom button panel. It has wheels on one bottom edge so one of the drive team members can drag it along with them.
I don’t think anything I’ve seen compares with the huge screens and camera poles a few teams used last year.
2011 a team, whom I can’t remember, had a custom board that was a scale model of their three jointed armor. They could control the arm at different positions using a scaled down model of their arm on the driver station.
1899? IMO that system made this is one of the coolest frc robots ever.
In 2007 we used a guitar hero controller for our Rack 'n Roll robot, fitting, no?
I once made a nice wearable DS that we called “the baby carrier.” Good times, walking around and driving the robot.
Pictures/Videos?
Holy ************************************. That’s amazing!
Ouch
Never got any, but it worked like a harness for marching band drums, and had a wide board to set joysticks on, with a high-traction surface so things didn’t slip.
We used this setup for the past 3 years
If I remember correctly, 1625 had a marching band snare drum harness where they would put their console during teleop.
I know that 1466 did this last year and I think in 2015. Theirs is 3d rather than against cardboard: Mini arm! | By Webb Robotics - Team 1466 | Facebook
Yes that one!!
Eyyy been looking for that arm for a while now.
My favourite, which would be a good one to recreate for this year.
Spartan Robotics, using a wheel from a racing sim. Especially impressive since it got them to Worlds in 2015, where control was the game.
Also, one of the Einstein teams (maybe Beach Bots) used a guitar hero controller for scaling the castle last year.
There’s a number of teams that use racing wheels; off the top of my head 16 and 1678 come to mind.
Yeah, racing wheels are definitely a viable option. Requires a bit of closed loop programming, but can be a very cool way to drive a bot.