i need help
 

i tried using the videos on how to use labview but it wont help. does anyone know a video or a place that i can get to that is free and not on youtube.
thanks
jwj3027

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Did you try the frcmastery.com ???
I hope that could be useful to you!

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So I did the obvious thing and entered "labview tutorial video" into the ask.com search engine. At the top of the list was http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/7466 It's the developer zone at National Instruments. I'm pretty sure NI wants you to be able to use their product. There are more videos available there at which you couldn't shake the proverbial stick. They are arranged in a logical sequence, so start at the beginning and skip forward ONLY if you find yourself yawning a lot.

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You might also look at the manuals installed with Labview under: c:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.6\manuals (if you installed LabView under c:\program files). There is an FRC_Getting_Started.pdf and FRC_Programming_Guide.pdf that contain a lot of useful information.

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thanks for the advice. oh new question does anyone know how to program with pnumatics

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I strongly second Rafael's post: http://frcmastery.com/ (the "Try Me" section).

Regards,

Mike

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There is an example you can look at.
It's on the bottom right of the LabVIEW startup screen.

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hey guys thanks. That helped alot, one last question, how do i program the pnuematic system and my team is completely lost. Please send a reply as soon as possible.
Thanks
jwj3027

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I completely understand about your issues. Check out this link hosted by Team 358. It has a TON of info about pneumatics including how to wire it to the cRio and screenshots of programming it in LabView.

http://www.team358.org/files/pneumatic/

Hope this helps!::safety::

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so we were trying to get the robot to work now, but last night we had to flash the driver station. We have set it back up but the cRIO wont respon to the program. Now what.

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oh while i was working on frcmastery i run into the problem that after i did everything that i was told to do the program was still consider broken. Is this supose to happen on frcmaster.com video 4 frc walkthrough.

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Hi everyone. Thanks for the kind words about frcmastery.com!

JWJ: have you upgraded to the latest upgrades of LabVIEW, Driver Station, and then done an update of the cRIO firmware. If not, you should.

As for the broken VI... there are some debugging features of LabVIEW which can help narrow it down. Try clicking the run arrow. What does it say in the error list?

Ben
-- FRCMastery.com team

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yes i have upgraded the driver station, my labview soft ware, and every thing. I tried clicking on the debug but i still cant get it to tell me where my problem is.
Thanks JWJ

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my team has finshed programming the robot. We are now wondering what game controller would be the most intersting and relatively easy to program.