Tip Jar #5 - LabVIEW Primer for FIRST Robotics Competitors

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This Blog entry is the first in a series intended primarily for FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams and their mentors. This year, thousands of high school students will be using LabVIEW for the first time.

This entry in particular is intended to be of assistance to someone who has never used, or perhaps never even heard of LabVIEW before. Without overloading a newcomer with all the details they need in order to FULLY understand, I present the key points of LabVIEW in the context of the FRC Joystick example.

In this blog entry, I touch on:
Opening Examples
VIs: Front Panel and Block Diagrams
Controls and Indicators
Navigating the Project Screen
Context Help
SubVIs
Wiring
Data Flow

For all those LabVIEW experts out there, please get out there and mentor a team near you! You will be surprised and motivated by their ability to learn LabVIEW and impress you.

Please! If you like (or hate) what you saw, please leave a comment by clicking here.

Also, don't forget to check out part II by clicking here.

Ben Zimmer
-- LV Mastery Team

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