runner_g,

I’ve seen some people on YouTube use them to control their CNC.

Honytawk,

All a controller is is just some buttons on a wire in a portable form factor.

If you want to use it for Excel, you can.

I used one on a Raspberry Pi to drive a self build remote car wirelessly.

packadal,

Gave a presentation last year, using a joy con as a remote for switching slides.

Nice thing is you can have mouse with the joystick as well

FeelThePower,

playstation and Xbox controllers make good Kodi/XBMC remotes for a laptop connected to a TV.

Ginger666,

Fire up halo 1

Get in the gunner seat of warthog

Tape right trigger down

Profit

Wootz,

OP asked for uses other than gsming.

Ginger666,

Thats cumming

Cumming is not gaming

toototabon,
@toototabon@lemmy.ml avatar

Typing with Donkey Kong Bongos

Interstellar_1,
@Interstellar_1@pawb.social avatar

They can be quite useful in hobbyist robotics

Cwilliams,

For FRC robotics competitions, we use Xbox controllers to control the robot

intensely_human,

Actually yes.

I worked on a crew building pole barns in Colorado. For anyone unaware you basically dig a bunch of holes, set wooden columns in them and pour concrete around them, then hang the rest of the structure off those columns.

We had a dude that swore by the xbox 360 controller. We tried to get him to use a framing hammer to drive his nails but he would only use that 360 controller.

We also did a lot of acid. If you see a weird barn in Colorado, look for the microsoft logo pressed into the wood next to the siding nails.

jsomae,

So he literally, physically hammered the xbox controller into the nail?

intensely_human,

He hammered the nails into the boards

ColdWater,
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They use it to control a submarine

johannesvanderwhales,

Not for long, though.

monsterpiece42,

For sale: Logitech submarine controller, lifetime warranty.

Aggravationstation,

Haven’t actually done it yet but I’m going to buy myself a Teensy for my birthday next month, set up headless M8 on it and control it through my Steamdeck.

DetachablePianist,

In Ghostbusters 2 they rigged up a Nintendo joystick to drive the statue of liberty through the streets of NYC. Does that count?

KeepFlying,

I think it was med students who use controllers to control flash card decks for studying.

Also as PowerPoint remotes.

FullOfBallooons,
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Some digital artists use Switch JoyCons for shortcuts in Clip Studio and other painting programs.

Contingencyfork,

I do recall a gaming controller being used to pilot the titan submersible that is now on the ocean floor. May their souls rest in peace.

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