Wondering if anyone has experimented with using controllers (PS/xbox/other) to do anything other than gaming ?
I heard they are great for killing billionaires in experimental deep sea rigs
Actually yes.
I worked on a crew building pole barns in Colorado. For anyone unaware you basically dig a bunch of holes, set wooden columns in them and pour concrete around them, then hang the rest of the structure off those columns.
We had a dude that swore by the xbox 360 controller. We tried to get him to use a framing hammer to drive his nails but he would only use that 360 controller.
We also did a lot of acid. If you see a weird barn in Colorado, look for the microsoft logo pressed into the wood next to the siding nails.
So he literally, physically hammered the xbox controller into the nail?
He hammered the nails into the boards
Several modular synth modules use joysticks for control over parameters, but one of the coolest I’ve seen is one from Delptronics that uses a wii nunchuck controller to send out control voltage. Hagiwo I believe also has a similar DIY design.
You can use one for quadrophonic mixing also
Yes! Yes you can! Vectoring synthesis voices is also cool!
Fire up halo 1
Get in the gunner seat of warthog
Tape right trigger down
Profit
OP asked for uses other than gsming.
Thats cumming
Cumming is not gaming
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.
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 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.
Scrolling around LibreELEC to get to my gaming folder
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.
Iirc (on the phone now,) cameractrls allows panning and zooming with a gamepad.
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.
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.
I think it was med students who use controllers to control flash card decks for studying.
Also as PowerPoint remotes.
playstation and Xbox controllers make good Kodi/XBMC remotes for a laptop connected to a TV.
