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Re: Dashboard Reader Buffers Full
Glad to hear it is working out well for you. Team 418 is also using this improved dashboard this year - we used it last year when we won the Innovation in Control Award at Lone Star - but we've got so many USB-Serial adapters plugged into our control laptop it's crazy. Plus, the kids constantly plug and unplug the USB ports into the laptop, so it's a real pain to keep track of the correct port the Dashboard is on. The lead student LabVIEW programmer wrote a quick program based on the Dashboard Provider that scans all the Serial ports and finds the one the Dashboard is on automagically, so we never have to muck with that when we start/stop the Dashboard after rearranging the USB ports. We also merged the Provider and the Dashboard into one VI, so we have a compact unit for our needs.

It's something to think about, these kinds of things help us keep our sanity.

-Danny
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