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Re: Laptop "Dashboard"
LabView gives you access to some very nifty 'front panel' GUI objects and is very easy to hook up to inputs and drive outputs from it. Having these GUI objects for our robot code debugging was one of the big reasons we went with LabView this year. I would consider it at least as easy as Visual Studio in this regard.

The example Dashboard program that comes with the KOP Labview install is super-easy to compile and get running. It tracks all of the PWM, relay, and analog outputs and inputs on the robot, displays the camera view, battery voltage, and more. By default it dumps the 984 bytes of user data to a string in a log window, but you could decode that data however you want to drive your own gages, dials, lights, etc.