Help with making a custom Dashboard and the Rectangular Target Processing

[The Trooper]

I am a senior this year in my club, but I only have been programming since last year. I can do a lot of the basic programming with the WPI robotics library, and simple tasks, but I have not gotten a clear answer, or have been shown how to incorporate anything into a custom dashboard. There are examples and tutorials out there, but these leave a lot of information out, and some do not even work when I use them. I would just like some guidance, and see how I can incorporate the image from the camera that recognizes the rectangle, and how I can incorporate what the camera sees and if it recognizes it when the cRIO is up an running. I haven't even been able to figure out how to tell it to look for light intensity within the cRIO project. I don't know if it is or not. Here are my main goals:

• See the black and red image side by side with the non-processed image on the dashboard
• Adjust the camera to look for light sensitivity within the cRIO project
• Figure out how to incorporate my own data into the dashboard

There has got to be an easier way to do it than the example that NI provides for you. I am to the point where I do not know what to do anymore, and with being in a region where there are only two teams in my area, mine and one other that is just about as young as we are, I do not know where else to turn.

I will gladly appreciate any help anyone can give me