Comments on: FIRST Selects National Instruments CompactRIO for Next-Generation Robot Control System http://vishots.com/2008/04/17/first-selects-national-instruments-compactrio-for-next-generation-robot-control-system/ News, videos, reviews and commentary from my world of Virtual Instrumentation. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Norm Kirchner http://vishots.com/2008/04/17/first-selects-national-instruments-compactrio-for-next-generation-robot-control-system/#comment-194 Norm Kirchner Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:15:13 +0000 http://vishots.com/2008/04/17/first-selects-national-instruments-compactrio-for-next-generation-robot-control-system/#comment-194 THIS IS SO GREAT!!! I was involved w/ the FIRST robotics team during college and it was such a great experience, but the programming of the device was some goofy off the wall program language(which i'm sure plenty will say about LV) and the hardware was hard to work with. The first thing I did @ my first NI week was to approach the education people and ask why there was no NI presence beyond the FIRST LEGO competeition. It just seemed like the ease of LV programming and NI hardware flexibility was so common sense, it stupified me when they said that they had no immediate plans to get involved with it. Better late than never. I'm 100% sure that this will bring nothing but good things for NI and the kids doing the FIRST competition. The kids are sponsored by businesses and colleges. If you are in either, think about getting a team started. You won't regret it! THIS IS SO GREAT!!!
I was involved w/ the FIRST robotics team during college and it was such a great experience, but the programming of the device was some goofy off the wall program language(which i’m sure plenty will say about LV) and the hardware was hard to work with. The first thing I did @ my first NI week was to approach the education people and ask why there was no NI presence beyond the FIRST LEGO competeition. It just seemed like the ease of LV programming and NI hardware flexibility was so common sense, it stupified me when they said that they had no immediate plans to get involved with it.

Better late than never. I’m 100% sure that this will bring nothing but good things for NI and the kids doing the FIRST competition.

The kids are sponsored by businesses and colleges. If you are in either, think about getting a team started. You won’t regret it!

]]> By: PJM_LabVIEW (aka Philippe Guerit) http://vishots.com/2008/04/17/first-selects-national-instruments-compactrio-for-next-generation-robot-control-system/#comment-193 PJM_LabVIEW (aka Philippe Guerit) Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:03:31 +0000 http://vishots.com/2008/04/17/first-selects-national-instruments-compactrio-for-next-generation-robot-control-system/#comment-193 This is VERY cool! As a mentor of a team in the Bay Area (Team 766) I have been wanting this to happen as long as I have been helping these kids. The first year I got exposed to the CompactRIO, I though that this would be the perfect platform for this competition. Among all the other great things about this system, the ruggedness of the CompactRIO should help prevent "unexpected" malfunctions. This will be a very good thing for the kid using it, as I have seen the previous controller died (several times). This is a really exciting announcement and hopefully the kid will branch from C/C++ and start to embrace LabVIEW. This is VERY cool! As a mentor of a team in the Bay Area (Team 766) I have been wanting this to happen as long as I have been helping these kids. The first year I got exposed to the CompactRIO, I though that this would be the perfect platform for this competition. Among all the other great things about this system, the ruggedness of the CompactRIO should help prevent “unexpected” malfunctions. This will be a very good thing for the kid using it, as I have seen the previous controller died (several times).

This is a really exciting announcement and hopefully the kid will branch from C/C++ and start to embrace LabVIEW.

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