[JesseK]

You may also download labview from ni's first community website for a 30-day trial. I plan to take this trial and figure out what workshops should be made for our students in the Fall.

All I have to say is, I spent only an hour after install on it last night and I was able to create the in's and out's of our skid drive into the VI. All that's left is to put in the neutral zones we have and then test/tweak. Timewise YMMV, but this little bit was very easy to do. What I can't seem to remember is where the "custom script" box is so I can plug in our proportional control algorithm...

I plan to try to do this for a driver-centric mecanum drive by the end of the trial using (finally!) proper unit vectors, but who knows how successful the testing will be. This would also be possible to code in C/C++, but the "testing" would consist of console outputs whereas in LabView I can easily have graphs and meters for visual history.