Team 279's 2009 Code [LabVIEW]

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Originally Posted by Burmeister #279

I agree, though there are two sides to this. In the competition, traction control (though it hasn't been proven beyond reasonable doubt) could be a huge advantage to robots that have it, and providing the code to do it would be gracious but sometimes the code is pure-custom and giving it away for anyone to use... i just don't think many would be up to that

One big advantage of releasing your code (IMHO) is that you're able to take whatever is released and use it the next year due to the rule about COTS software. This is a particularly useful thing if you create a library out of useful generic things that aren't specific to a particular robot. Granted, one could easily recreate a lot of things, but that just seems like wasted work.