Due to Google Code closing The new homepage of this project is at https://github.com/virtuald/webdma -- though, it hasn't been modified in several years, and I don't expect that to change.

WebDMA was created to allow our FIRST Robotics team to tune our robot in an easy to use and intuitive way via any modern web browser.

Using C++ operator overloading, WebDMA provides proxy objects that your application can use as normal variables which can be manipulated or displayed by your application via a configurable jQuery/javascript powered AJAX-enabled Web 2.0 interface hosted by an lightweight embedded web server.

FRC teams can install a binary release of WebDMA to their robot using the installer on the downloads page. This sets up the build environment and also installs a sample program to the Wind River Workbench.

Despite that WebDMA was specifically created for use in FIRST Robotics on the NI-cRio/vxWorks platform, it uses the Boost ASIO portable networking library and Boost Thread portable threads library and is usable on any platform supported by these Boost libraries (tested on Boost 1.38, requires a patch for vxWorks). A demo program is available that is compilable on Linux (using GNU Autotools) and Windows (using Visual Studio 2008).

A non-functional (but very shiny) demo of the interface is available at http://www.virtualroadside.com/botface/index.html

You can also see a video of WebDMA controlling our robot on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjbSHEmchIQ