The second episode of The Blue Alliance brings you a more advanced topic than the first: custom controls. Have you ever seen teams with their own array of buttons and wonder how they did it? We take apart team 177’s 2006 custom controls box to show you how it works. Want to know the difference between a switch and a potentiometer and how to use them to control your robot instead of the kit of part joysticks? Then check out this episode.

All of that is relatively simple, and at The Blue Alliance, we are all about taking it up a notch. So instead of regular boring buttons, we take apart an Easy Button from Staples to show you how to wire it up to control your robot. Warning: If you add an Easy Button to your controls, other people may ask you to push it non-stop.