General LabVIEW questions from a VERY new user

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I am not 100% sure as to why the axes information is being put into another array, but it looks like unnecessary code to me. I haven't opened up LabVIEW 2013 yet - is this code part of the default project, or did you add it in from a tutorial online?

In regards to the different VI's, the guy above me did a good job. Perhaps a little clarification on Periodic Tasks. There are obviously a lot of functions going on in both autonomous and teleoperated mods, in relation to your robot. For example, you may be shooting frisbees in both modes or using some sensor. Rather than having duplicates of these particular functions in both the teleop and autonomous VI's, it is simpler to have them all in one place. That place is the Periodic Tasks VI, and it's nice because it runs in BOTH autonomous and teleop.

Once again, I haven't looked at the vision processing VI, but typically it just holds the code for getting the video input from the camera and sending it to the driver's station. You can add in vision tracking code here - usually we are given this (basically all the work is done for you) in a separate VI, but I'm not sure where it is. Some teams choose to do their vision tracking on a separate onboard computer, or send the video data to the driver's station and do the vision processing there.

Hope this helps somewhat.