Thread: PDA as an OI controller
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Re: PDA as an OI controller
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Originally Posted by IrisLab
I've seen a photo somewhere that has an operator interface (OI) with a PDA device in the middle. Does anyone know which team this photo would be?

What are the FIRST restrictions with regard to an OI? Can you have a lap top?

Also, out of curiousity, does anyone know how to integrate a PDA into the FIRST OI? I'm assuming most PDA's have a a serial data port.

Thanks!

I don't have a link to the pic (nor have I seen it). But what you were most likely seeing (read: the only legal thing) wat the PDA was connected to the dashboard port. Yes, you could also have a laptop connected (several teams have done this as well). Though the laptop(or PDA) is only a display.

Meaning you can't have any outputs from the PDA controlling the robot. You can however have a nice fancy graphical (or text) display to show various information from your robot, such as speed, current draw(with appropiate sensors), etc. The drivers then have to react to that display to make any use of it.