Unclaassified: Information about the 2010 control system

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Jon236

It would be useful to try and flesh out the changes in LabVIEW (or C++) so that mentors can start teaching. I would rather not start with last year's base code if this year's is significantly different.

We LabVIEW beta testers don't yet know what the final code template will be. As issues are found and addressed, things change. One thing I'm reasonably certain of is that teams will be strongly encouraged to start with something that looks a lot like last year's "advanced" template.

There's a new mechanism for dealing with the clutter of reference clusters having to snake all over the block diagram. Since we don't yet know whether what we have is going to be the final form, it's probably best not to share too much detail about it, but it resembles a kind of global variables that are simpler to create.

[jtdowney]

Originally Posted by Pikat

Also, what is the purpose of dual-booting Windows? I read somewhere, I forget where, that beta teams were discouraged from installing programs on the Classmate anyways.

I have talked to teams who have a difficult time getting their school system or whoever to install the programmers software on computers available to the teams. Those teams have to resort to having a team owned laptop to run LabView or Windriver on and not all teams have the capital to fund that. I am hoping that by providing a netbook in the kit that it can lower the barrier for those teams in this unfortunate situation.

[jmanela]

Do you have some sort of a powerpoint, or word document that outlined your presentation? Do you have a screen shot or something of the LabView code because I am teaching LabView to my team I don't want to teach them last year's code.

Thanks in advance