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A hideous fruit, disgracing itself.

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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

folks, this is huge. there are men outside my house doing something in a manhole, and then one walked up holding a gamepad. a minute later, he hauled this little tank out of the sewer and I believe he's about to fit what appears to be a huge cutting head to it

they're going to drive a little blaster master through the sewer with an xbox controller. VIDEOGAMES REAL


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

i cannot find the exact model they're using On Line and i don't feel like going out and asking but suffice to say there's a whole galaxy of Little Guys Whomst Pipe and i support every single one of them. i am tearing up. i am so proud of the patriot and hero who is about to go clear out our storm drain. he's going to get into adventures. he's gonna get stuck and have to fight his way through. but he can do it. he's strong and determined



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Honestly it makes perfect sense. I'm sure RC car transmitters have evolved since the bulky, horrendous twinstick things that existed in the 80s, but it's hard to beat the economy of scale you get with an xbox 360 controller. Instead of making your own proprietary controller protocol, you get a cheap $1 transmitter board off alibaba and your device only has to speak USB-HID. (And I wouldn't be surprised if an spi or i2c-speaking 360 controller transceiver exists somewhere out there for situations where even USB is too heavy)

I'd suspect the xbox 360 controller pairs to a portable ground control station, and only the resulting motion commands are forwarded to the UGV over the RF link or tether. (Looks like a tether in this case.)

A command packet for the type of UGV depicted could be as simple as three integers and a boolean. (Left and right motors PWM, camera arm linear actuator extension, and lights on/off.)

I worked on updating some medical equipment that had a proprietary controlling device whose drivers wouldn't work with modern versions of windows. I suggested using Xbox 360 controller drivers and well,

Sorry that there are now gamers in your arteries