Does anybody know how, if at all possible, to output text to the LCD of the Driver Station? I would be interested to output debug information for our sensors, etc. so that we can more easily monitor these values without having to lug a laptop around everywhere.
We are using LabView as per team consensus and I’m not so good with it as I am with C/C++… I tried connecting a string constant into the UserData part of the Driver Station User Data VI and it basically gave me the equivalent of a data type mismatch - then again, I don’t even know if this is the correct VI to use.
Long answer:By default, the DS loads a program which does not support displaying this data. However, since the DS is basically a linux box, it would be theoretically possible to reverse-engineer the default program and make a new one that COULD display user data(though probably not competition-legal)
Yeah I saw that the DriverStation was ARM9 and gcc and the like can all do ARM compilation easily, but I couldn’t find the specific kernel source and modules and such for the DriverStation since it wouldn’t be competition legal, not to mention I’m sure they want to keep it proprietary.