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Unread 30-12-2006, 15:37
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Re: pic: Thousands of manhours of work... coming '07

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Originally Posted by magical hands View Post
Hi! Guys as I mentioned before that I did a similar project. When I was doing this, I found that the most expensive part of this project is LCD itself. If you have a smal LCD Panel than you first need to create a cross-platform between a C language and the language required to program the LCD panel itself. Also, if it is a small screen which costs about I don't know around $50? Is not going to help a lot since you can't display a lot of information. What I would suggest is if you guys can do something what we did last year. We used table PC but you guys can use laptop also if no one on team has tablet. Have the COM Port on laptop communicate with the control system in real time so you always have the information such as co-ordinate values, velocity, sensor values, motor values, current flow in robot and etc monitored at all the times. If you guys don't want to do lot of hard work than their is always IFI dashboard we can use. But I would say this would be a challenge.
I think they are planning on using like a 2x20 character screen ($20) to save money enstead of on an OLED screen. But i could be wrong. An OLED could be really cool.