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Using gaming controllers for anything other than gaming ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by red_pigeon@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Wondering if anyone has experimented with using controllers (PS/xbox/other) to do anything other than gaming ?

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[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

In college I was on the robotics team. We used several different controllers to drive various robots. I made a little tank steering robot that was remote controlled from a PC with an Xbox 360 controller. I later rebuilt it to use a Raspberry Pi and added a pan/tilt mount for the camera controlled from the controller's D-pad. We also used a Wiimote to control our competition robot, using the accelerometer for steering which was pretty cool. This was in like 2010 when motion controls were still a relatively new and cool thing.