Custom Driver Station Controls

[Coach_Seb]

Trying to investigate putting together a custom driver station controls for our operator, something with arcade like buttons.

Few years back, we got a MSP430 TI board. Is this still the best way to get this going or is there some newer ways?

Picture of your driver station would be appreciated!

[gerthworm]

Any embedded controller that can present itself as an HID over USB to the host PC can work.

Your memory is correct, certain MSP430 development boards are still available as a pre-canned solution

I don’t have any good photos of it, but I made a joystick + 10 button one earlier this fall just for fun.

Also check here: Robot Controller Options and here: Button Board

[ExploitSage]

A couple of solutions I have looked at in the past include:

arcade usb encoders that are readily available on amazon, often with sets of buttons and micro-switch joysticks. The main downside being I don’t think I’ve seen any with analog inputs, just digital.

ATmega32U4 based Arduinos such as the Arduino Leonardo and Arduino Pro Micro can emulate a USB HID device, so there are plenty of projects out there having it emulate a USB Joystick with programmable button and analog inputs. I actually used this method several years ago for testing Joystick input handling for both RobotOpen’s DriverStation and the Driverstation.js projects.