pic: Team 81 LCARS Dashboard Screenshot

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by tacman1123

How does one go about creating a Dashboard? Is there sample code out there somewhere that demonstrates a basic dashboard?

I'm particularly interested in a Vex dashboard, but am curious about what's necessary to create one for FRC as well. How does the robot communicate the data back to the dashboard? over TCP/IP? If so, where does one get the appropriate devices, and are they available for the Vex?

Thx,

Tac

All the data you need (and really, all you're allowed to use in an FRC match) is found through the Dashboard port on your OI.

IFI released information on the Dashboard spec on their website, which would let you roll your own. National Instruments also created a setup in LabVIEW that would let you create a Dashboard as well. (In fact, partially because it was easier and also because LabVIEW is awesome about supporting OS X, that's what we did this year. It was just a matter of finding the right drivers for our mystery USB-serial adapter.)