The 2009 Control System Q&A Thread

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First, some quick background. I love NI hardware, but really don't like LabView. At my Co-Op we used a whole bunch of your hardware (M-Card, 8-port serial card, 4 axis motion control card, can bus module, VBAI) to build a testing robot and ran it from Visual Basic in Windows XP.

I really like the ease of using calls to the CVI libraries... will the same CVI calls be available in the Wind River C environment?

Also, I don't know how much of your (awesome) vision system you're including, but do you know if we'll be getting vision assistant or VBAI?

If you can pick... I find VBAI much easier to use and more powerful, and it's very easy to load up an inspection with a CVI call.

How much resolution do the PWM outputs have? What frequency do they output at?

One last question on the 150lb weight limit: If this is true, why are batteries and bumpers not included in the weight limit? FIRST robots currently weigh a good deal more than 150lb with a full complement of bumpers and batteries. Sorry, I was thinking 120lb not, 150.

Thanks,

-q