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byteit101 26-04-2009 21:05
"Desktop" cRIO
 
I was thinking about the crio the other day, and I had a radical idea: you could make a fully functioning "Desktop" on the cRIO.

for a screen, you can use the DS, and print out stuff, use a custom Dashboard, or using the imaqSetPixel function in C++, draw graphics to an Image,and feed them to a modified PCVideoServer, and view it on LabVIEW's Dashboard.
For a Mouse, you could use a joystick to move X and Y, two potentiometers, a Dashboard with a socket connection to the cRIO, or, use a HID mouse.
For a Keybard (best part!) CORRECLY Wire up a keyboard to the 8 digital inputs, and use a C++ union bitfield to convert it to a char, or be boring and use a custom dashboard.

I would love to see someone do this, just a simple text editor would be cool :D :D :D If we have time after our break ends, we might try some of this (at least the keyboard!)

virtuald 26-04-2009 22:05
Re: "Desktop" cRIO
 
Just modify the webserver I released. Would be a lot easier, then you could use/create any javascript applications you wanted, with no nasty dashboard hacks. :)

Steve_Alaniz 26-04-2009 22:10
Re: "Desktop" cRIO
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by byteit101 (Post 855261)
I was thinking about the crio the other day, and I had a radical idea: you could make a fully functioning "Desktop" on the cRIO.

for a screen, you can use the DS, and print out stuff, use a custom Dashboard, or using the imaqSetPixel function in C++, draw graphics to an Image,and feed them to a modified PCVideoServer, and view it on LabVIEW's Dashboard.
For a Mouse, you could use a joystick to move X and Y, two potentiometers, a Dashboard with a socket connection to the cRIO, or, use a HID mouse.
For a Keybard (best part!) CORRECLY Wire up a keyboard to the 8 digital inputs, and use a C++ union bitfield to convert it to a char, or be boring and use a custom dashboard.

I would love to see someone do this, just a simple text editor would be cool :D :D :D If we have time after our break ends, we might try some of this (at least the keyboard!)
WOW....... Just for the record... You may NOT date my daughter....

Steve

Adama 27-04-2009 08:46
Re: "Desktop" cRIO
 
Could this be turned into an Iphone app?

byteit101 27-04-2009 15:23
Re: "Desktop" cRIO
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adama (Post 855337)
Could this be turned into an Iphone app?
yes, you would just have to make a nice dashboard, and allow it to communicate with the right port. I would want to see this :)

Eugene Fang 27-04-2009 18:10
Re: "Desktop" cRIO
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by byteit101 (Post 855421)
yes, you would just have to make a nice dashboard, and allow it to communicate with the right port. I would want to see this :)

Seconded.

Uberbots 27-04-2009 20:01
Re: "Desktop" cRIO
 
I agree that it would be cool to make a RIO function as a desktop, but unfortunately its not designed to be a desktop computer so you may run into issues during implementation (especially at the OS stage). The lack of secondary storage will make multiprogramming very difficult (unless you plan to run only a couple programs at a time)

but hey, i say go at it if your team will let you have at their RIO

pyr0b0y 28-04-2009 02:24
Re: "Desktop" cRIO
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve_Alaniz (Post 855279)
WOW....... Just for the record... You may NOT date my daughter....
lol

Kingofl337 28-04-2009 08:28
Re: "Desktop" cRIO
 
If they can do it on a little AVR you should be able to on cRio.

Drive a VGA Monitor Directly
http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/SoftVGA/

or Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA53DvmLbho


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