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Re: Using a Keyboard on the Drivers Station
I once saw a team use a guitar hero controller to control their robot so I assume that <R75> allows other controllers and a keyboard would be included in that, however because you would need to use not WPI .VIs there might be a problem there.
Edit: I looked over the rules again and I don't see anything that would stop you from using the built in LabVIEW stuff and not the WPI .VIs.
As for using it on a technical side getting the keyboard to communicate with LabVIEW is easy but turning that input in to robot actions isn't as easy. There is a menu system under "connectivity" that holds all the .VIs you would need to connect anything from a mouse to a keyboard to a joystick to LabVIEW without using any WPI stuff. The only thing that could make your life harder is that LabVIEW interprets keyboard input as an array of characters with the last button pressed in the 0 index, 2nd to last in the 1 index, and so on. Good luck with whatever you choose.
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Last edited by MaxMax161 : 01-02-2011 at 08:32.
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