{"id":7684,"date":"2012-03-14T05:31:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T12:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/pasta-and-vinegar\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:58:21","slug":"drones-controlled-by-playstation-like-joypads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2012\/03\/14\/drones-controlled-by-playstation-like-joypads\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones controlled by Playstation-like joypads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2011\/sep\/29\/predators-and-robots-war\/?pagination=false\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<i>And yet the US military does little to discourage the notion that this peculiar brand of long-distance warfare has a great deal in common with the video-gaming culture in which many young UAV operators have grown up. As one military robotics researcher tells Peter Singer, the author of Wired for War, \u201c<b>We modeled the controller after the PlayStation because that\u2019s what these eighteen-, nineteen-year-old Marines have been playing with pretty much all of their lives<\/b>.\u201d And by now, of course, we also have video games that incorporate drones: technology imitating life that imitates technology.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other similar instances of transferring video game controllers tot he military:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/pasta-and-vinegar\/2005\/05\/30\/us-marines-robot-controlled-by-a-ps2-like-controller\/\">PS2 pad to control mobile robots<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/pasta-and-vinegar\/2005\/03\/17\/using-ps2-pad-to-control-missiles\/\">missiles controlled by PS2 pad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Why do I blog this?<\/b> material for the <a href=\"http:\/\/gamecontroller.tumblr.com\/post\/19287352455\/for-the-lucky-ones-who-got-the-catalogue-for-the\">game controller project<\/a>, examples showing how certain interfaces become a standard that can be transferred to other domains.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=Gv6kcoYFmZM:10HirLVxJEA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=Gv6kcoYFmZM:10HirLVxJEA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=Gv6kcoYFmZM:10HirLVxJEA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?i=Gv6kcoYFmZM:10HirLVxJEA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/NicolasNova\/~4\/Gv6kcoYFmZM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found this: &#8220;And yet the US military does little to discourage the notion that this peculiar brand of long-distance warfare has a great deal in common with the video-gaming culture in which many young UAV operators have grown up. 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