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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by mey on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:53PM (#36411865)
There was video floating around of a machine gun turret being remote controlled using the Valve Steamdeck in Ukraine.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/steam-deck-controls-a-real...

Edit: consumer joysticks normally use potentiometers, which aren't great for deadzones/drift. For things like dust incursion reasons along it would make sense for any industrial/military device to be using hall effect based joysticks.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by Accujack on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:06PM (#36412531)
The more modern ones use hall sensor based sticks. Most new RC transmitter designs have 'em.
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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by numpad0 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:18AM (#36414658)
Valve donated few of those for kids. Most likely one of those units, than purposefully chosen.
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