[Greg McKaskle]

The dashboard code already has independent loops that do UDP. For example, the loop that reads the Kinect Server data is towards the top of the Dashboard diagram. The important part is shown below.

It reads from port 1166 about once a second, or whenever data arrives. It reads at most 1018 bytes as a string, and then interprets it as the agreed datatype. In the situation we are considering, a similar loop would be placed on your robot and run in parallel with everything else -- I'd suggest doing it in Periodic Tasks.

The second image shows the code that needs to run on the dashboard to send the data. You need to change team and you need to make the data constant be your own data either formatted or flattened to a string. The final piece is to identify the UDP port to use and use it for both the read and write.

As for the index problem, I'm pretty sure that is currently based on the particle size. I'd probably try to sort them by location and label them as top, left, right, and bottom. You could then store them in a cluster or an array with a unique cell for top, left, right, and bottom. You should be able to identify them with any sorts of simple sort techniques.

Greg McKaskle