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Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

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Re: Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

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This is what happens when you take the move fast and break things culture to anything where people die when things break. Really just sad and so stupid.

It’s sad of course, but the early days of flight were also quite dangerous but they lead to rapid innovation and the stable industry of today. It’s a tragedy, but high risk activities are by definition going to have a few.

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Re: Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

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There's a BBC documentary from last year which I just watched: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fpz9zw and honestly a lot of it seems quite amateur hour. One of the steering motors was fitted backwards. When they discovered this, at the bottom of the ocean and a few hundred feet from Titanic, the solution they used was to hold the gamepad at right angles to compensate. That time they proceeded with the tour and mad…

"BBC iPlayer only works in the UK. Sorry, it’s due to rights issues".

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Re: Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

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Absolutely. The fella in the article is going wired though by the look of it.

They have a couple of pretty good shots of the controller, and I don't see a wire. Also, the marketing image they include for the controller is clearly labeled as wireless.

I think by "the article" they mean the one linked at the top of this subthread, which is about the Navy and shows a sailor using a wired Xbox 360 controller.

The one used on the missing submersible does use Bluetooth.

Re: Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

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post #46

There's a BBC documentary from last year which I just watched: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fpz9zw and honestly a lot of it seems quite amateur hour. One of the steering motors was fitted backwards. When they discovered this, at the bottom of the ocean and a few hundred feet from Titanic, the solution they used was to hold the gamepad at right angles to compensate. That time they proceeded with the tour and mad…

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> Dear Stockton,

> This letter is sent on behalf of our industry members who have collectively expressed unanimous concern regarding the development of 'TITAN' and the planned Titanic Expedition. Our apprehension is that the current 'experimental approach adopted by Oceangate could result in negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic) that would have serious consequences for everyone in the industry.

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/marine-technology-soc...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/oceangate-titanic-miss...

Re: Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

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What’s wrong with Logitech controller? It’s good and reliable, I use it in the drone platform I built (in addition to xbox/ps4/ps5 controllers) and we flew the drone from the other half of this planet, this is like saying “oh your tank/car/whatever steering wheel or this component is only $150 so it’s bad!!”, that’s the idea of engineering, find/make reliable pieces at an affordable price, guess that contractor if they rebranded that joystick sensors and sold for $50000 then it will be better!?

Re: Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

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post #46

There's a BBC documentary from last year which I just watched: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fpz9zw and honestly a lot of it seems quite amateur hour. One of the steering motors was fitted backwards. When they discovered this, at the bottom of the ocean and a few hundred feet from Titanic, the solution they used was to hold the gamepad at right angles to compensate. That time they proceeded with the tour and mad…

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Re: Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

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A lot of people going on about the game controller, which itself wouldn't bother me if there was a direct connection way to control it too (aka via the touchscreens). What bothers me more and is clear as day in those pictures are things like the screws into the carbon fiber pressure hull holding the screens up. There was someone (ex test engineer?) on reddit yesterday talking about a few things, but what really stuck…

That's just a decorative shell. You really think they drilled into their pressure hull?
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