[Abrakadabra]

Hi Danny -

Thanks for the tutorial. It went a little fast in places so we had to watch it a few times, but we finally got a finished product that looks almost exactly like yours. However, when we run, we get a few seconds of data transmission and then an error:

Error -1073807252 occurred at VISA read
in PacketReader.vi -> DashboardProvider.vi
Possible Reasons
An overrun error occurred during the transfer.
A character was not read from the hardware
before the next character.

At this point the DashboardProvider is halted, but the Dashboard itself is still going.

We are using the USB<->Serial converter cable sold by IFI for the VEX system. Could that be the issue? Has anyone else had any luck with this adapter?

(It's getting real hard to find a decent but inexpensive laptop with a real serial port!)

Thanks for any guidance you can provide!