This ESP32-Based Gamepad Handles Play and Robotics Work Equally Well
Remember when the whole OceanGate thing happened and everyone was flabbergasted that the Titan sub had an off-the-shelf Logitech F710 gamepad for control? One group that didn’t find that weird was the robotics engineering community, because they use gamepads to control robots all the time. That said, nobody wants to be constrained by proprietary hardware or firmware, which is why The Open Gadget's ESP32-based Smart Joystick Controller is ideal.
This is a much more engineer-friendly version of the typical gamepad, such as the Logitech F710, and it is good for both playing games and controlling robots.
It can act like a conventional gamepad, so you can use it to play video games on a PC. It can also act like a handheld game console, because you can run some games on the controller itself (emulation will make a lot possible). But most importantly — at least for our audience —...
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