I'm hoping some technical folk here have some advice about a non PIC related topic .
I do all the technical support at our car club's hillclimb circuit, particularly in relation to the timing.
We have some large-screen TVs driven from an HDMI signal to display run times as they occur.
Right now they are driven from a netbook running a Visual Basic program under Windows XP.
(I've done both VB6 and VB.net versions of this program.)
It receives very simple packets of text over ethernet using UDP and a very simple packet scheme I designed.
(This is coming from another netbook in the timing hut, connected to a PIC based timer that I built.)
I would love to replace the netbook driving the screens with a Raspberry Pi, setup so it started running the software as soon as it had power.
I've read that it's possible to install a version of Windows 10 on the RBP, and run dot net applications on it, but that seems pretty inefficient to me.
Has anyone done it?
Otherwise, is there a simple graphical C environment that can run on the RBP using the standard Pi Linux OS, which doesn't require much programming to do UDP communications, and show a few list boxes on the screen?
Here's what the current screen looks like (it's 1024x768 pixels now, but the Pi and screens can all ramp up to 1920x1080)
The two big grey rectangles are standard Microsoft List boxes that get filled in line by line with driver run times.
You can see there's plenty of room to mount a RBP next to the screen.
(That's a 42" HDTV. The cabinet is oversize because there is a 55" one on the other side.)