[Kevin Sevcik]

Just FYI, it's nigh unto impossible to use the NI software itself to get useful data about the motors. You can only get data about things you can set or read via the IFI controller. It could be useful for waypoint plotting and navigation stuff if you sent it data from encoders, I suppose. Or setting up a dashboard program a little more quickly than you could code a program using C++/VB/whatever. The point being you could do the same sort of stuff with standard languages given a bit more time.

I think the real interesting stuff to be done with the NI software was to be done by the 36 pilot teams that recieved DAQ hardware to use with labview. Modelling motors and a host of other useful things that could have been shared with the rest of the FIRST community. Sadly, as far as I can tell, the only interesting thing to come out of those teams was a program to measure ball speed.