General LabVIEW questions from a VERY new user

[ctccromer]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

To your first question, you have a number of ways to process images. One of those involves running RoboRealms on your dashboard or driver station computer and sending data to the robot. Others involve running LV code in your dashboard or running LV code on your cRIO.

To the second question, the window motors do not have a feedback mechanism. If you add a potentiometer or an encoder, possibly a limit switch in some cases, you can know how much they have turned. But the motors can't do that automatically, you have to build it.

Greg McKaskle

We don't really need any image output on the drive station. We JUST want the tracking algorithm. So do we still need RoboRealms if we dont want the output on the driver station?

For the window motor, would my best bet be to say "go forward at x speed for y seconds then go backwards at same speed for same seconds." and then just play around with it to get it the right speed/time?