Thank You IFI

[Greg McKaskle]

In DC, it became apparent that there was some confusion as to where the different elements of the control system come from. I won't try to identify every sponsor/supplier, but I would like to point out that the HW elements provided by or designed by NI is the cRIO and the modules. That is possible in part due to the gracious parts donations of many NI suppliers. Some of them are listed in this article http://outsideinnovation.blogs.com/p...al-instru.html.

On the SW side, NI provided LabVIEW. WindRiver provided the VxWorks tools and IDE. The WPI SW libraries were developed by a team of people from NI, BAE, and WPI. Documentation was provided by this group and FIRST.

Support is being provided by a huge group of people from many companies and individuals. This can cause confusion as everyone is simply trying to diagnose issues and get to the bottom of things. NI is proud to join with other companies and supply what we feel are world class products to be used in the FIRST competition, but we do not deserve credit for running the events or for elements provided by other suppliers.

Good luck, and hope to see you in Atlanta.
Greg McKaskle