Rookie team seeking some programming advice

[shuhao]

If you haven't yet experienced the joys of programming something that reacts to the outside world in realtime through sensors and actuators

Unfortunately I have not, which is why I don't know how practical it is to attempt to develop AIs, as I don't know how long it will take to hammer out all the issues with basic control.

I have a good understanding of the theory for AIs that's like these, but I have yet to find the the time to implement the theories behind them, especially on actual hardware, rather than simulated environments.

And since we are a rookie team, we have no prior experiences telling us how long it takes to write basic functions etc.

supply their own matrix math functions (for example)

Good idea. Gonna get the team to start porting/writing a basic linear algebra library.


Edit:

Just noticed http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=87260

Since my primary language (also currently as lead programmer) is Python, and I have some numpy experience (as oppose to no experience in any Java Lin. Alg library, if they manage to get it ported, and I could try helping, too), is it worth a try to get Python onto cRIO and then go from there?

A text editor (geany) + ftp (nautilus) sounds like heaven to me (minus the initial wind river stuff, but not a big deal)