3596 Rocket Robotics - Labview Code Release

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Team 3596 Rocket Robotics is releasing their 2015 Elevator Bot ("Hug Bot") Labview code. This is the first year that we used Labview, previous years were in Java. We switched to Labview to focus more on understanding the building blocks of programming, than just putting code in a robot and constantly changing it to get performance. We are finding for us that visual coding is easier for the students to understand, than copying code from a book and not understanding how it works.

As this was our first year with the code, some of the code may not function as intended. Our autonomous code was not used and was not fully tested. We intend to work further with this code in the coming years as the challenge allows.

Lets all have a fun and safe 2016 competition!

EDIT: I should clarify that we lost our Java mentor in 2013, and lost our only Java student programmer in 2014 season due to graduation. At that time, we decided to switch to Labview for the 2015 season.