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Re: Dashboard
That's pretty cool looking.
One thing I might suggest? Last year, me and my friend (SuperDan) created a dashboard "suite" of programs last year. It used a C++ backend to read/parse data, and a Flash MX frontend to display data.
This allowed us to make a pretty crazy frontend, and Dan actually made a small model of the robot, which made it very easy to see what was going on without reading.
Keep in mind, you don't want to be reading absolute values so much as seeing relative values. It's nice to know you're going exactly 10 ft/sec, but I find it more useful to see a bar that gets higher the close I get to full speed. Or see an arm that moves on the computer screen as the arm on our robot moves instead of a "LED" lighting up.
I like the way you did your output, it's very simple and it's following IFI's dashboard so people should be somewhat familiar with it. But I think that depending on how you interpret data, it can be much improved upon. Just remember, you only have 2 minutes to play, most of the time you'll be looking at the field, not a laptop, so you want those few seconds spent looking at the laptop to give you as much data as possible, sometimes numbers take too long to read.
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