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Re: Communicating with a laptop

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Originally Posted by slavik262 View Post
So using the socket programming in vxWorks you can set up a socket on your laptop and a socket on your laptop and communicate with the two?
Yes. If you've done sockets before, this is probably the most flexible way to go. Probably not legal to use during a competition though.

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What about the user data packet already sent back to the robot from the DS? Is there any way to access that?
Yes, look into the dashboard class. The official dashboard stuff is done in labview, but I know I saw some threads about someone who made one in C# or C++ or something...
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