Program cRio

[shalesaupinhere]

So I'm completely brand new with these kinds of robotics, and I just got myself a CompactRio, some jaguar motor controllers, and much more. My dilemma is that I have no idea how to program the cRio. I downloaded labVIEW, but I just don't know. How do I do stuff? Also, if anyone knows anyone that was on the 2011 Haywire robotics team, or know anyone that does this stuff within 20 miles of Pocatello, ID, could you connect me to them? Thanks.

[cbutcher]

The CompactRIO (cRIO) is a combination of an FPGA chip and a (usually Linux) Real-Time system. Beyond these parts, you might often communicate with a separate desktop/laptop PC (maybe Windows, etc) via Network Streams or similar communication methods.

You can insert C-Series modules into the cRIO chassis, and use these for I/O with other stuff (e.g. your motor controllers, perhaps).

There are specific courses available if you have an active SSP covering Real Time and FPGA programming in LabVIEW, but it sounds like perhaps you first need to look at some normal LabVIEW programming courses/information.

A sizeable quantity can be found at the top of these forums, and I'd particularly recommend the SSP-locked courses if you can use them, or the new "interactive" courses (which I haven't tried in detail, but have looked through a little bit in the course of finding bits for forum users, and they seem quite helpful-looking).