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Originally Posted by francistexas
Now I am completely oblivious to the function of any and all electronics with the new DS, but I know there are several output pins on the side. Could these or even one of the USB ports be used to set up a second LCD screen for custom input?
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Doubtful. You have 8 outputs, and the data is transmitted at 50Hz at best, so bit-banging the outputs isn't likely to work well. The USB ports are thus far only for joysticks and a USB key for firmware upgrades. The Linux OS might recognize anything something else plugged into them, but you won't have any way to interact with it from the cRIO. The only real option is a dashboard laptop/netbook/PDA/whatever. I recall them saying the specification of the dashboard packets were open or would be. If so, you could really use almost anything with a LAN port on it to display things. I mean, most dashboard programs are going to be pretty lightweight. Ebay is currently listing 1,800 <$100 laptops with 1GHz or better processor and at least 512MB of RAM. I know it's not going to be as easy as just dumping a variable or two to the user byte, but an actual dashboard laptop is likely to be a lot more useful.