Survey: What is your team using for a custom dashboard? ZomB? SmartDashBoard? LabVIEW

[Randy Forgaard]

Quick survey: What is your team using to create a custom dashboard this year? ZomB Dashboard? SmartDashboard? Writing one in LabVIEW? Something else completely?

We would like to create a custom dashboard for our robot that uses some simple graphical controls and can display the video from the camera on the robot.

We wrote our custom dashboard in LabVIEW last year, and that worked very well, but our one LabVIEW programmer left at the end of last year. Rather than get up-to-speed on LabVIEW, we'd like to try something else this year. (Our team's software engineers this year are all C++ and Java programmers.)

We've been trying to get ZomB Dashboard up and running for the past 4 days or so, including the just-posted ZomB v0.7.1.350, but no success yet. The features look great, we just haven't been able to get it to work. It would be wonderful if a well-written Quick Start document existed for ZomB. The user manual for ZomB is good, but does not seem to have careful, tested, step-by-step instructions to get it going. I know at least one or two other teams are using ZomB rirght now. If one of those teams would be willing to post step-by-step instructions for how to get started with ZomB, that would be awesome, and be useful to many other teams.

SmartDashboard looks potentially quite interesting. I'd like to know if other teams are successfully using it.

There is also the CARDS Dashboard. We tried to use it briefly this past fall, but there is very little documentation, and we couldn't figure it out. The last posting was in May 2010, so I'm not sure it is still being maintained.

There is the IFI Dashboard Viewer, but it doesn't seem like it's designed to be customized.

Is there any other obvious custom dashboard system I haven't listed here?

So, what is your team using for a custom dashboard this year?

Any advice, hints, pointers, or instructions in this area would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks!