I’m setting up plan to use XRP in my Intro to Robotics class next year as a replacement for the popular in my area, VEX EXP or VEX V5 kit. The only question for at this point is which remote handcontroller (say, something like the Logitec Wireless Game Pad fits the bill or if there is any other kind of “standard” out there. It would be nice if it was anything like what we might expect latter in FIRST (we’re headed that way as well).
Thanks for any tips! - Les
Great question.
In FIRST Robotics Competition we see a lot of XBOX controllers.
in FIRST Tech Challenge we see a lot of the Logitech F310
From a software point of view, most controllers are supported these days. And XRPCode will have a release that supports controllers in the near future.
Another place to look for details is the Chief Delphi forums that FIRST teams us.
Awesome… thanks! I hope as a XRP newbie, it wasn’t too bad a question.
I’m bucking my district to move away from VEX EXP (V5) to open source. My curriculum will work with the XRP landscape other than, I don’t see an obvious tele-remote operation. (Wifi, bluetooth)… I think I have a sell to my bosses other than this one area. I also only get one shot an the capitol outlay (money) for the year, and I don’t want to make my 88 or so kids starting with the journey with my pay the price of me not knowing. I’ve contact the sells folks but they don’t have a clear (or any after about three days) answer for me. I’m hope some one that has been down this road already can clue me in 
XRPCode will have a beta coming out shortly that will allow you to use your computer keyboard or a gamepad plugged into the computer to control the XRP. There will be blocks and a python API available for a person to write programs to use the gamepad data to control the XRP.
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Hi Frank,
This looks exciting. We are in the process of setting up a summer camp running the Orbit Odyssey game. Last night we were playing around with the Pestolink as well as trying to get the XRP driver station ( xrp-applications/driver_station at main · kensthilaire/xrp-applications · GitHub ) working. We were able to get the Pestolink set up, very cool, but the students would rather use an XBox like controller.
Will this work be suitable for running 4 xrp robots using 4 different controllers?
Yes, you can try it now. It is at xrpcode.wpi.edu/staging
There is a problem with the keyboard that sticks on sometimes. An update for that problem should be posted early next week.
This looks very useful. Do you know if we could use the FTC driver stations (androids basically) to run the Python code?
No, I have not seen any efforts like that.