Rookie needs LabVIEW help (and more)

[Murray]

Hi there. I'm a rookie mentor (electrical engineer) for a rookie team (3164 Thundercats) here in Tampa.

We are trying to set up the control system according to the document 2010 FRC Control System-Getting Started-Rev-0-7.pdf. We've decided to use LabVIEW although we don't have any experience with this software (but we don't have any C++ or Java either so it seemed the lesser of three evils!). We got the 2010 Game Robot Project.lvproj downloaded to the cRIO and we can get two CIM motors to work fine with arcade control. Our problem is that we follow the instructions to try out tank drive and cannot get it to work. We have verified that both joysticks work and are putting the Z-wheel in the down (-) position, but it doesn't change out of arcade drive. Can anyone help or point to the VI in LabVIEW where it looks for the Z-wheel position?

On another point, can someone please direct us to instructions on how to wire up the camera on the robot, and set it up for use with the cRIO? We have done the password change per the above manual.

Finally, is there anywhere where the 2010 Game Robot Project is described in detail - i.e. maybe an explanation of what each VI does? As complete rookies the only chance we will have to "program" is to modify existing code.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.