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2014 season robot

is there any way to controll our 2014 robot with the new software?

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There was a bit of discussion about this in the following thread: https://decibel.ni.com/content/thread/26700?tstart=30  It appears they had some success with the cRIOs.

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We talked about getting a 4-slot cRio controller working in this discussion

https://decibel.ni.com/content/thread/26700?tstart=30 

Doug Norman did some testing and was able to get a starter LabVIEW project working. 

We were also able to program our last years robot using the 4-slot cRIO with the following abilities

  • 2 wheel tank drive
  • 1 Motor to arm the thrower
  • 1 solinoid to fire the thrower
  • 1 motor to retrieve the ball
  • 1 Game controller
  • 2 limit switches

Note that 8 slot chassis are not suported by the 2015 software.

Mark

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My question is the students use Java will the new driver station support

the Crio running java?

Thanks,

Rob

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Yes, the most recent DS release does support that.

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You will need to select the '14 robot protocol on the settings tab for it to connect, though.

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