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Xbox controllers used in the military – life mimicking art?
- gte910h 17y agoWe used them to control robots too. The reason why is 1> they're nice 2> they're hardy, 3> their comm protocol is USB
- tetha 17y agoWell, at first I thought 'What the ...' Then I thought 'Well, it _is_ pretty cool'. And then I realized this makes a ton of sense. Those controllers are very mature and thus, precise and fault-tolerant (because a game needs precise controls, as does a robot). And you get a lot of other benefits too, those game industry developers worked on making them ergonomic, they are cheap, ... wow. ingenious.