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Re: Programming with the 2009 controller

Closest thing you'll get is the Guide that one of the team members of Team 1817 has done about programming a National Instruments Compact Rio (NOT THE FRC VERSION).

http://www.team1817.org/cRio_report.html

If the code there intimidates you, be assured that programming the 2009 NI CRio FRC will be much more easier. From what I understand right now, there will be many demo VIs (programs in LabView) that will explain how to program in LV and program a robot in LV, and hopfully, teams will recieve/download a default code(or VI) for LabView which with it teams can control a robot like you would with the Default Code for MPLab in previous years, just that you will have much more options of changing values easly in order to:

- Chose the method of driving the motors (1 joystick, 2 joysticks, omni....)
- Defining input/output for analog and digital components
- and probablly much more!
and all that without having to create too much of your own code.

So I think the best thing for teams (same goes for teams that are looking forward to use only C/C++) to do now is to understand how to use LV to program a robot (know how to use shortcuts, values, loops, statments etc...) so once you receive the robot controller and Labview (hopfully) with the Default Code, you'll be able to change the code to fit your robot easly.
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