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Robotics developers, startups, and resalers furiously shopping for new HID peripherals
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I remember using them in my high school robotics club. And honestly, I think the controller was probably one of the least sketchy things about the sub. Lots of fields use game controllers to handle equipment since they're well designed for that. There were many other things that were far worse.
Yep, I've seen reporting of Navy's using them for controlling periscopes on submarines (now that most are drive by wire), or Air forces using them for piloting drones, as well as for teleoperated robotic thoracic surgeries.
The widespread user familiarity and benefits in transferable hand coordination skills with common gaming based HID economics is hard to refute. Although, I'm guessing the market for safety certified joysticks will uptick.
to be fair no one in their right mind would use a wireless controller for something like a submersible
I mean they are all using first party xbox controllers, not a logitech knockoff that sucked even 10 years ago compared to first party 360 controllers.
Was the wireless implementation sketchy at all? I get it's unlikely to be a critical point of failure, since all they need to do is go up which I don't think they control exclusively that way, but just struck me as weird.
Turns out none of this matters if the sub implodes and turns you into the Atlantic ocean