Remote Control Idea

[danielzli]

I'm expecting a Rn1 in the mail sometime soon, it will have it ready to compete at the 2007 Robogames. One idea i had for RC is to hook up bluetooth. But instead of using a keyboard to control it you hook up an xbox controller to the USB (or other computer game controllers). I don't know how well this might work, and I hear that the xbox controller is very encrypted, but they do have USB adapters for them.
This is somthing that I really want to try out on my RN-1 when it arrives, but my electronic skills are not as good as my mechanical ones.
Any feedback or help with this would be great.
Thanks!
--Dan

[DirtyRoboto]

Bruv, If your gonna go bluetooth then make your own controller or look at Nintendo's Wii controller.
If you are that smart that you bought the RN1 then I expect you should be able to make your own unique controller.

I am going to go the palm route with bluetooth as it has many benefits.

Marcus.

[danielzli]

I could make my own controller and that would make it alot easier. I just like having the idea of a perfectly controller that you can wrap your hands around. I got to play around with David Calkin's fleet of RN-1s which used Playstation 2 controllers connected to Xbee transmiters. I really liked using those, but i heard the XBee can be kind of slow.
What also would be nice with having a controller hooked up to a computer, is that you can swap out commands fairly easily (or so i would think).
--Dan