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I just finished writing the Killer Bees dashboard. I made the camera as large as possible with the small screen (full dashboard height at same aspect ratio),gave status information about the robot, made the background black, and grouped all of the controls into the cells of honeycomb. All of the text is 33pt yellow, default font. All of the indicator lights are brightly colored (purple, pink, yellow, blue, and green for on and red and black for off) so the drivers can see. Since we don't like to look down at the controls, the indicators are primarily aimed at the coach. For a final touch, I replaced the Timeout in camera communication message with the logo on honeybomb with a white background, with "Timeout in Camera" on the bottom. (I then put this program on the Classmate, which resides in a silver briefcase with honeycomb and our logo on it).

I like the idea of the tabbed dashboard. However, when that raw data is necessary, I am usually editing the code, so I can just probe stuff.