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Data File Writing ... cRIO vs. Driver Station

In support of refining of our constants/gains/limits related to driving, I want to output a file of the robot's performance parameters. Then, I'll take that file and dump it into excel to plot the actual speeds vs. commanded speeds vs. accelerations vs. gyro readings etc.

I'm wondering if I should perform a local file write on the cRIO, or if I should do it at the Driver Station. Most/all of the data that we're interested in will be reported on our custom dashboard anyways, so I'm leaning towards writing it to the local disk ... either at the driver station, or a development PC on the 'bot network.

I've never done a file write in Labview before and would appreciate any tips/tricks that y'all could provide. I'm not near my development PC at the moment and don't even know where to look in the VI pallettes to find the appropriate blocks for file formatting, naming, writing, etc.

Thanks.
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