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Re: Saving feedback to a flashdrive
Since the DS isn't programmable, you're essentially out-of-luck on the driver side (except for twiddling some outputs and using a custom circuit to store data transitions, yuck).

You could have the Dashboard PC record every packet of data sent from the robot. That would be easy but is limited to about 1k bytes at 50 times/sec. Could be very useful but won't be terribly good at storing a video stream.

You should be able to store many megabytes directly in the cRIO but I'm not sure about update rate. Maybe you can store pictures in RAM and dump them to nonvolatile memory later on?

Russ