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Re: Custom Dashboard Program Ideas?

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Originally Posted by tutkows1 View Post
I suggest having a larger video screen, and having a space were messages from the programmer can show up. For example, you are now cocked at position three. Having a pressure gauge is also a good idea.

On a side note: were did you find a gauge that can send the air pressure as an analog signal to the control system?

Edit: More about what we did.

Last year my team didn't use the classmate for the dashboard, we sent it to another computer so we could have a larger screen and it seemed to run the feed better.
@tutkows1

Our Robot has an analog pressure sensor on it hooked into one of the analog imputs on cRios. We played around with the data communication and have a guage on our large video screen with the air pressure. I think that the while loop on the dashboard has a slow iteration rate however, because it is quite slow responding, about 1-1.5 seconds per responce, hardly real-time.. But we might consider putting dashboard onto another computer. Did the program run faster on a different laptop than it did on classmate?