A More Mobile Dashboard

[Astronouth7303]

I'm thinking about making/writing a dashboard setup that is a little more mobile (and a lot less pricey) than IFI's version. I'm thinking either a TI graphing calculator or an old PalmPilot Personal.

Has anyone tried this or similar? Success, failure? Was it easy? Should I buy a tablet PC instead?

[edit]Clarification: I mean a substitute for IFI's Dashboard program. Something that can connect to the dashboard port on the OI.[/edit]

[Jeff K.]

One way you can start to make it more mobile is by making a portable power supply like Team 222 Tigertronics made. It can be found on the white papers. It's pretty much 3 9V batteries wired together into a special plug you can buy at radioshack. It works really well when you have to work in a place where it's hard to find a plug in like outside or somewhere in an empty place. It doesn't last very long since they're only 3 9V batteries, so i recommend getting some back ups too, but overall it's a really nice design and good job Team 222 and good luck. Wait...now i think about it, you mean the dashboard as the controller or the dashboard as on the computer when programming??? I may actually be totally wrong when I am talking about this, but if this is of no use to you, sorry.

-Jeff

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by Stonefan5271138

Wait...now i think about it, you mean the dashboard as the controller or the dashboard as on the computer when programming???

I mean the dashboard port on the OI.

[Jeff K.]

Oh sorry, but if you ever need a portable power supply you can make one. Good luck on making a new dashboard.