[DFTF] Operator Interface...

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by apalrd

I'd stay away from the Cypress (FIRSTtouch) board if possible.

We used it in 2010 with nothing but problems - Back then, the Classmate was totally locked down so when in Driver mode you couldn't open Task Manager. The Cypress driver seemed to randomly crash when exiting sleep, and you would have to reboot the laptop, sometimes twice, for it to find the board again. Our only solution was to never shut down the laptop ever, which was very hard with the lack of power at the driver station that year. I don't know if they fixed it, but I've still found that the Cypress drivers aren't always installed and many of our driver station laptops don't have them.

I think those problems have been fixed. We used the Cypress board last year and had no problems at all.