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Re: pic: Thousands of manhours of work... coming '07

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Originally Posted by Matt Krass View Post
I'm also wondering if teams would be interested in a menu-driven 4 line by 20 character LCD for set up, calibration and possibly "instant feedback" of the robots status (Tach and such) similar to what Tom described for 195s system. This has to be designed in due to the nature of the LCDs control system. Hopefully it won't drive the price up a whole lot either.

So what's the word on that?
As awesome as it sounds, it kinda feels like a bell and/or whistle (though I've never used one on a robot, so I could be dead wrong). How hard would it be for someone to integrate the LCD control code in with the existing code, assuming they have both?
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