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Originally Posted by CHSboy
We have those. I guess I'll have to figure things out with one of them then...
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That's about where I was a week ago. But don't panic! We are here!
Which way you want to go (LabVIEW or Wind River) is up to you; if you are fairly proficient at writing in C or C++, you will probably be better off with Wind River, because that is a C/C++ environment. You will want to be comfortable reading source code to understand how everything works, because the documentation for WPIlib is still pretty rough; most of the code _is_ the documentation.
LabVIEW, on the other hand, is very well-documented, and a graphical language. There is a series of video tutorials on how to use LabVIEW
on the National Instruments site here. You don't need to write any code at all; the entire language consists of wiring terminals on "virtual instruments" together. This is probably the route you'd want to go with if you aren't familiar with C++.
Either way, there is a LOT of information on the
FRC Control System page. You are going to need to know pretty much everything that is in all of the PDFs linked to from that page, and links to more LabVIEW help are there, also.
If you have any questions at all, let us know.
Jacob