[SamCarlberg]

About the raw OpenCV stuff vs. GRIP (starts around 17:00): the next release has code generation for the OpenCV 3.1.0 APIs for Java, C++, and Python 3. You can set up the pipeline and tune parameters in GRIP, then generate a class that does all the OpenCV functions that you can use in your robot program on the roborio, or wrap in a program running on a coprocessor. You don't need to write any vision processing code, but you will need to write the code for getting images to the generated code and using the OpenCV objects it outputs.