[BradAMiller]

I'll throw in a plug for RoboRealm. In the past I've used NI Vision libraries on the robot and OpenCV on the driver station. Yesterday I decided to try making a program with RoboRealm running on the driver station sending data back to the robot with Network tables.

In about an hour I had a program that was detecting the hot target, and in another half hour had the data back to the robot using the built-in Network Tables implementation in RoboRealm. It's not yet doing distance or anything complicated, but it does make my little desktop robot open and close the claw based on the target being hot. I'll leave the hard parts for the students. I just wanted to see how well it worked.

I was able to test the program using the sample images that are included with the sample programs that come with all the languages. No field construction required, and didn't leave my desk.

Brad