Programming with the 2009 controller

[Bomberofdoom]

Closest thing you'll get is the Guide that one of the team members of Team 1817 has done about programming a National Instruments Compact Rio (NOT THE FRC VERSION).

http://www.team1817.org/cRio_report.html

If the code there intimidates you, be assured that programming the 2009 NI CRio FRC will be much more easier. From what I understand right now, there will be many demo VIs (programs in LabView) that will explain how to program in LV and program a robot in LV, and hopfully, teams will recieve/download a default code(or VI) for LabView which with it teams can control a robot like you would with the Default Code for MPLab in previous years, just that you will have much more options of changing values easly in order to:

- Chose the method of driving the motors (1 joystick, 2 joysticks, omni....)
- Defining input/output for analog and digital components
- and probablly much more!
and all that without having to create too much of your own code.

So I think the best thing for teams (same goes for teams that are looking forward to use only C/C++) to do now is to understand how to use LV to program a robot (know how to use shortcuts, values, loops, statments etc...) so once you receive the robot controller and Labview (hopfully) with the Default Code, you'll be able to change the code to fit your robot easly.

[pollyproof12]

so let me geth this right. keep in mind that this is my first year in the usfirst competition. they will give us default vi to modify?

[Greg McKaskle]

Yes. There will be examples and default code in both C/C++ and LabVIEW.

Greg McKaskle

[PhilBot]

Originally Posted by pollyproof12

so let me get this right. They will give us default vi to modify?

The LabvVIEW installation disks that come with the competition kit will already know how to build a FRC-cRIO project. So instead of saying "New Vi" you will say "New FRC cRIO project"

That project will build and deploy to the robot and work just like the "Default programs" of past years.

This base project can then be modified to your hearts content to build custom robot capabilities. There is also a large set of "custom" vi's created to support typical FRC components. The best thing is that you can drill down into these and see how they were built, and learn LabVIEW skills the same we learn most programming.

Note: the cRIO will probably be loaded with this program out of the box, so once wired up it should run without any software changes (just like past years)

Go to this forum to ask question of the teams currently beta testing the new hardware/software.

http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdisplay.php?f=743

There is not much there yet because people aren't asking questions (like yours).