pic: Touchscreen interface, theory of operation

[Elgin Clock]

Wasn't the concept of this introduced in Atlanta during the Championship Event on the big screen in 2008 when the cRIO was first officially & publicly announced?
What ever happened to that?
As a person with a CAD background, it seemed really cool to just draw a path & have a robot follow that.
Never saw anyone use anything like that this year though.
So disappointing.
Hopefully in the future more people will attempt this & succeed.

[biojae]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Wasn't the concept of this introduced in Atlanta during the Championship Event on the big screen in 2008 when the cRIO was first officially & publicly announced?
What ever happened to that?
As a person with a CAD background, it seemed really cool to just draw a path & have a robot follow that.
Never saw anyone use anything like that this year though.
So disappointing.
Hopefully in the future more people will attempt this & succeed.

I dont know, i never saw that video, or pictures of it.

that is basically what i am trying to accomplish, my team at the LA regional didnt like how the robot kept crashing into the driver station wall, and they wanted to have something to be able to change the behavior of the bot without having to tweak values in the code (no text file for us ).
one of them remembered the screen at atlanta, and wanted it put on the robot for last second strategy changes.
(we used binary switches but they couldnt ever remember what each switch did, or if it even worked)

[biojae]

This is similar to what it is going to look like

[Akash Rastogi]

Did you model this yourself or did you find it somewhere?

[biojae]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Did you model this yourself or did you find it somewhere?

The touch screen is from liquidware.
http://www.liquidware.com/shop/show/...chShield+Slide

but the interface to the driver station i developed.

the blue board under the screen is an arduino

there will be another board between the two components that will have the circuitry that i designed

[biojae]

Today, the touchscreen finally arrived

The circuit is almost completely soldered, and the screen can be powered off of one IO pin on the DS

Pictures soon, waiting for a photo box

*Heads off to go programming *