[dkearle]

Our (Team 1280) 2012 season is now over. We tried to get Vision processing on our laptop but because we couldn't get the data we wanted communicated back to our robot, we eventually decided to place our vision processing logic on our cRIO in our C++ code. This worked well for us.

After many robot crashes in competition, and in the pits tethered we eventually removed all of our SmartDashboard logic from our code. We did this after we captured an exception on the NetConsole. The crash looks like it originated in the Connection.cpp code provided by WPI, which is used by the SmartDashboard. Once we removed the SmartDashboard from our code, we had no further failures. It's too bad because we really liked what we could display on the SmartDashboard, and how easy it was to use. We also crashed during the build period while debugging when we were sending too many Log() commands to the SmartDashboard. Hopefully next year the SmartDashboard will be a little more robust/bullet proof.