Frequently Asked Questions: LabVIEW and WPI libraries

[kamocat]

(May also be called "Programming a robot with LabVIEW".)

What questions are frequently asked?

Don't worry about the answers; the plan is to make a page/document providing those in some form or another. I feel it is useful to make a list of the things to be answered before deciding on the medium to answer them in.

[torihoelscher]

From my mechanical team

"Can you switch the motors to Victors/Jaguars?"

"Can you disable this?"

"*&%^%* LabVIEW, why isnt this working?!?!?!"


LOL

[Dustin Shadbolt]

I agree with the above.... It's always "^%^% Programming make it work". The one big question I always get is "Is that possible in Labview?".

[Greg McKaskle]

Is that possible in Labview?

The short answer is yes. The more important issue is how. One of the best sources is the examples or the Help>>Find Examples tool. Also, google or search NI web site or the LV help documents.

A fallback is to ask here. What do you want LV to do for you today.
Greg McKaskle

[Alan Anderson]

Is that possible in Labview?

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

The short answer is yes.

There are three longer answers that I find myself giving. One is "Yes, it's a built-in function." The more usual one is "Yes, and here's one straightforward way to do it."

The hard answer is "Yes, but you don't want to do that." When people coming from a procedural-programming mindset haven't yet begun to realize the natural strengths of a dataflow language, they sometimes miss simple ways to achieve underlying goals while they focus on what they think is a reasonable implementation. Yes, LabVIEW can do that, but it's sometimes simpler and faster to do something else that gives the same result.