Programming with the 2009 controller

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by Phalanx

I'm of the opinion that while the new control system will be significantly different than the IFI control system, that the FRC Modeling Toolkit could still be a useful learning tool for those of us that need skill sets using Labview. I believe that by using it, it will help bring some better understanding in how to use Labview by working with environment, motors, and sensors we are already familiar with. Since we "know" how those systems are supposed to work, we could use it as a learning/teaching tool.

No. I want the current FRC Modeling Toolkit to die, it has no practical use for learning how to program LabVIEW nor how to program for the new FRC environment. We also don't have the 3rd tutorial and its incredibly necessary information - it was never sent to me, only the byte stream location that I posted here on Chief Delphi, and WPI seems to have "lost" what they had (so please stop asking for it).

You can still download the toolkit, but I am not going to maintain it nor explain it nor support it any longer. I hope that concepts from that particular toolkit will be reflected in the final product, but it would require waaaaaay too much work to maintain. Jon Mittelman from 236 suggested that I/we modify it to replicate what's going on with the FPGA and such, but the work required would be similar to writing the production interface itself - I'd rather just leave it to our LabVIEW team working on this to create a final project, not have two completely divergent branches of code (I also have better things to do with my time, like actually teaching LabVIEW with the tools already provided to teams).

-Danny