[BradAMiller]

To answer two of your questions:

There will be C/C++ programming available, although maybe not easyC. But we're trying as hard as we can to make it simple to do simple things in C. So using joysticks, and basic robot driving will be as short as we can make it while still being extensible for adding all your customizations.

And there will be documenation for all the LabVIEW VIs that will be availalble. It's going to beta soon, and I'd expect the documenation, at least, will start becoming generally available soon after that.

Brad Miller
WPI Robotics Resource Center