1y ago

Using gaming controllers for anything other than gaming ?

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

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I heard they are great for killing billionaires in experimental deep sea rigs
They use it to control a submarine
The Steam Deck and Steam controller have touchpads which make them totally usable as a mouse for normal PC usage like web browsing
- 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.
Disneyland uses Steam Decks to remote control droids in Star Wars land.
- ukraine was doing the same but to kill russians lol
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?
They can be quite useful in hobbyist robotics
They are the OG electric vibrators.
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.
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.
I use my flight sim gear as a fidget toy, hope that counts.
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
Scrolling around LibreELEC to get to my gaming folder
Iirc (on the phone now,) cameractrls allows panning and zooming with a gamepad.
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.
In Ghostbusters 2 they rigged up a Nintendo joystick to drive the statue of liberty through the streets of NYC. Does that count?

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