I know alot of teams use xbox controllers or logitech controllers. Are there any teams out there that found that something else works better? What is it?
Not serious but I would love to see someone use a steering wheel.
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We just upgrade from playstation to xbox controller with hall effect sensor. The inputs on our xbox controller is much smoother than the “old” playstation controllers.
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differential swerve on a steering wheel would go so hard
Not that unique, but we use a keyboard for our operator
Also, big fans of the Gulikit Kingkong 2 pro controller, it works very well and is very responsive.
We used a steering wheel in 2008. The controller was okay; the main issue we had at the time was that it was USB, and there was a very finicky converter board to turn the USB into an old-style game port to talk to the control system of the era.
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For our homebrew BunnyBots competition, our quick-and-dirty CADless robot “Enigma” (on the right) was equipped on the front with a claw mounted on a single-stage elevator and 5 independent pneumatic piston “cannons” on the rear.
Elevator… 5 boolean inputs… for us, the answer was obvious:
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In 2023 at champs we realized that the operator had too many inputs for an Xbox controller. So naturally we used 2 controllers. They were both on the table and there were 8 buttons used on each. It was acting as a temporary button board. We now use an x keys button board which has 60 inputs.
Someone asked me if we could have a steering wheel (for non diff swerve) and I could not figure out how that was supposed to work. Is it the heading control?
I think it was at Mayhem in Merrimack, last year or the year before, there was a team that was using a different musical-instrument-game-controller, I think a drum set. Gee, my memory is hazy, hopefully someone else remembers details. I’m pretty sure they were just playing around, though, not expecting it to actually work “better”.
Last year I converted a Wii U gamepad into a controller for my teams bot, it was an amazing idea but never got used because we never got vision on our bot so there was no need for the screen.
the wheel is heading control, the pedal(s) are acceleration