Question about LabVIEW

[RoboTigers7892]

Howdy, probably going to be asking questons a lot cause big help. So currently we have our roboRIO working, and Radio. Our current challenge right now is to get out motors working, we have them plugged into the roboRIO. it’s just how do I program through LabVIEW to get those motors working?

Also a simple question about the Radio. So we have it all configured, and working. Just wanting to know if it’ll still save the configuration when it’s plugged out of it’s hosts computer, or do we have to reconfigure?

[oscarfonloz]

@RoboTigers7892 I recommend you check out the LabVIEW Example Template and examples that ship with it. Basically, you will be opening the references to your motors in Begin.vi:

You will move your motors in Auto.vi and Teleop.vi

Read more in:

• Add an Independent Motor to a Project

Regarding the radio: It will keep the configured settings until it is configured again (most likely at your first competition).

[Jonathan_L]

Here are a bunch of helpful links.

Control System

• Wpilib.screenstepslive.com
• FRC 358 Control System Tutorials

Forums

• ChiefDelphi

• National Instruments

LabVIEW

• The Secret Book of FRC LabVIEW The latest version as of this writing is on post number 21 on the 2nd page. This is a couple years old so you might see things like ‘cRIO’ when we will be using the ‘roboRIO’ or static IP addresses (like 10.10.94.2) where we use DNS addresses (like roborio-1094-frc.local) but I think you will be able to connect the dots.
• LabVIEW For FRC: Episode 1 - Interface There are more videos on the youtube channel.
• FRC 358 LabVIEW Tutorials
• https://www.frclabviewtutorials.com/
• Tutorials by National Instruments
• Getting Started with LabVIEW (not FRC specific) video series These videos explain the very basics of LabVIEW. Past video number 10 it starts using hardware that we don’t have but some of the concepts may still be interesting.