[John Heden]

We are creating our custom Dashboard in C# (.NET) using Visual Studio Express (free). We use the WPI Dashboard class to pack up whatever robot data we are interested in receiving and capture it with a simple .NET UDP listener for graphical display and manipulation. We also capture the camera images (.jpg) using a similar TCP listener. The images were a bit trickier to string back together into separate images given that single packet can contain the end of one image and the beginning of another. It’s really cool to capture all of these images and string them together to make a video of what the robot actually saw. We are excited this year that our Dashboard can actually transmit data to the robot using UDP 1130 which opens up a variety of interesting previously prohibited possibilities….