Wondering if anyone has experimented with using controllers (PS/xbox/other) to do anything other than gaming ?
I would also add VR controllers to the list and I had used them for painting.
I heard they are great for killing billionaires in experimental deep sea rigs
Controllers in shoddily constructed deep sea rigs don’t kill people, billionaires piloting with controllers in shoddily constructed deep sea rigs kill people!
Disneyland uses Steam Decks to remote control droids in Star Wars land.
ukraine was doing the same but to kill russians lol
“These blast points, too accurate for Russians”
The Steam Deck and Steam controller have touchpads which make them totally usable as a mouse for normal PC usage like web browsing
Hell, not optimal by any means but I even had a serviceable for light usage setup using analog sticks and a mapping program before Steam Input came out. Much better with the trackpads
DualShock 4 and DualSense touch pads do this too! They even support multi touch so you can do left/right/middle click by using multiple fingers.
They are the OG electric vibrators.
A vibrator was one of the very first patented electrical devices. 1880. It predates the first patent for the first electric iron by a decade.
I didn’t know this!
We had a subcontractor drive a wired camera mounted drone through the sewers with it. Some use LIDAR or SONAR instead of just cameras. Game controllers are pretty common for these.
Operating parts of multi million dollar navy ships, according to articles. Not joking
Also submarines, when heading down to see the Titanic
I wonder how many spares they keep around
And if you always get the shitty broken one until you’re a corporal.
Because they’re designed for controlling and people are familiar with them/can learn easily
Also helps standardize when taking bids from multiple companies
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.
I used to use a mini game controller for artwork. Like up on the dpad would zoom in the canvas. I had buttons for undo, redo, switch to eraser, rotate the canvas, flip it, etc.
I do recall a gaming controller being used to pilot the titan submersible that is now on the ocean floor. May their souls rest in peace.
In Ghostbusters 2 they rigged up a Nintendo joystick to drive the statue of liberty through the streets of NYC. Does that count?
Scrolling around LibreELEC to get to my gaming folder
On a very old computer of mine, the “y” key was completely missing and I couldn’t replace it because the contacts were broken so I just use JoytoKey and a USB SNES controller.
I’ve also used a similar setup for navigating some image boorus but, for obvious reasons, I wont specify anything further.
playstation and Xbox controllers make good Kodi/XBMC remotes for a laptop connected to a TV.
We used a ps4 controller as a mouse on our tv/media center. Its wired/Bluetooth and comes in as a mouse on our Linux box. No setup, just connect and it works.
