Seeing the new controller is programmed with WPILIB I would suggest tinkering with the existing version for the current controller. After speaking with Brad he said everything available in Lab View should be available in C/C++.
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Originally Posted by Robostang 548
I'm really eager to get my hands on some of the default code for the new controller. I'd like to see how its communicating with these modules and initializing them. I'm excited to see that it is multi-lingual (even thought I was hoping we could use python  ) however I’m a bit disappointed. My team's programming mentor and myself are opposed to using labview. We kind of feel like we are going to be forced to use it because while yes you can probably do everything in c or c++ that you can do in labview, you know that they are going to make it easier for you to do it in labview (like programming the vision system). I don't know how much support or tutorials NI will provide for teams who do choose to program their robot in c or c++ and if they chose not to use labview they will be left to fend for themselves. Either way I think that the Chief Delphi community will be a huge help to teams that chose to not use labview. Plus, I had some discussion with my team and we talked about how the c code could be executed from lab view. Therefore you could write your code in c/c++, have lab view do the vision processing, then write a flag with what it sees to a global, where then labview would execute your c/c++ code as a module. You could get the best of both worlds and your actual c/c++ code would be what’s making the decisions for the bot. |