Custom Driverstation

[bearsomg]

Has anyone managed to develop a custom driver station (not the dashboard, the full driver station) in a language other than labview? If so, could you send me the source code please? I've been trying to make our own custom driver station in C#.NET but I can't seem to find how to structure the packets that are being sent to the robot.

My final goal with this is to be able to write an iPhone app that works just like the normal driver station so that we can use it with our normal robot code.


Thanks!

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Justin
FIRST Team 1511 Rolling Thunder

[Alan Anderson]

You might want to contact Ben Abraham of Team 3357. He's on Chief Delphi as mobilegamer999, and wrote an iPhone app that does what you propose. See this thread for information.

[Greg McKaskle]

A couple things to keep in mind.

At this point it is not legal to use a custom driver station at a FIRST competition.

As you write the driver station software, think through the safety issues. Your code will now be directly responsible for much of what the robot does. If the app crashes and stops communicating, the system watchdog will shutdown the outputs. If your app continues sending commands, the robot will do what it is told -- whatever that is. Test it thoroughly, especially before using it around crowds of people or letting others drive it.

Greg McKaskle

[ShotgunNinja]

There is a project called the ZomB Dashboard on http://firstforge.wpi.edu/ that you should check out, and I know a guy named Eric Haskins, from FRC #1103, who fully reimplemented the FRC Communication Protocol for the Arduino Mega 2560 for our college-level robotics competition. We have some partial code for you to look at here:

Driver Station (in C#/.NET!)
http://code.google.com/p/scoe-robotics-driver-station/

[byteit101]

Originally Posted by ShotgunNinja

There is a project called the ZomB Dashboard on http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/projects/zombdashboard that you should check out,

More specifically, the DS plugin source, located in DriverStation.cs in the ZomB.DriverStation folder: source