For the second year in a row, Team 2423 has won the Innovation in Control award at the Boston Regional. The 2013 award was given primarily based on the dashboard control system on our driver station laptop, which is a touchscreen ultrabook running Windows 8.
This dashboard program (and our robot code) is written entirely in python, and in addition to the visual eye candy and status indicators (including an animated robot drawing), it contains accurate image processing code (using OpenCV) that directs our robot to shoot at targets that the operator touches on the screen.
As promised, here's the full working source code for the robot control interface. A list of features, a
screenshot, and the
source code can be found on my
website.