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Using a game controller is not that unusual.
but it was wireless, that is bad.
What was the controller commanding btw?
The thrusters on the outside. The goal was to minimize hull penetrations for cabling and things.
Thank you, so the signal went through the water a little bit. We had a struggle about it in a different thread.
Probably not, actually. carbon fiber is opaque to blue tooth. Even a single ply carbon shell is enough to block it. My DLG r/c airplane uses an arramid section for the antenna.
Yeah. It's not unusual, for example:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a33457596/israeli-carmel-tank-video-games/
I’ve heard of this. Out of curiosity (because I don’t actually know), do you know if the controllers used in military applications are literally “off the shelf” or if they’re “Xbox-like”, which is what most descriptions about them say.
In other words, I suspect the military(s) using these type of controllers are not just ordering them off Amazon and using them as-is, whereas it sounds like that’s exactly what OceanGate did.