Introducing the Open Source Driver Station

[gluxon]

Hey Chief Delphi!

I would like to share with you what the Second Law Enforcers (Team 178) have been working on for the Summer of FIRST project in the last two months. We’ve replicated the current FRC Driver Station and created a version that will be functional without platform-based dependencies. In other words, this Driver Station will work on OS X and Linux as well as Windows.

At the current state, the only thing you really can do is enable and disable the robot. Joystick support is coming up soon. The main issue with adding this feature is that I don’t have one to test with, and won’t until our next team meeting.

Anyway, this is just a beta test. I’m working on creating a version for iOS, which I hope to have out within the next month. I do realize this has been done in the past, but the app is no longer up, so I’m recreating it with 2013 and hopefully 2014 season support.

Download links are on the GitHub page. https://github.com/Summer-of-FIRST/DriverStation.js

Note: This is not legal for usage during a competition match. I will most likely add a kill switch if it detects FMS in the future.