This way we will be able to use a laptop to drive the robot.

I followed the directions to install the NI tools and driver station software.

I found it on the FRC 2012 Control System page.

Getting Started with the 2013 FRC Control System is where I started.

Notes on how we installed the FRC software for the 2013 season.

It appears this document was released for the 2012 season. It has more details in some places in it than the WPI FRC Driver Station Software page. The Nation Instraments (NI) Driver Station Tutorial page has a driver station tutorial document.These controls will send data in the same way as the Cypress Board in Compatible mode and can be read on the robot.' It appears to me that we can use this to send information to the computer to configure the autonomous mode actions. In the 'I/O' section, it says ' If the Cypress board is not being used, the Digital and Analog Input controls can be used with the computer mouse.If connected to FMS, the robot will not be disabled and the joystick will not be automatically detected if it is reconnected, press the F1 key to force a refresh.' In the 'Set Up' section, it says 'Disconnecting a joystick will disable the robot.The WPI FRC Driver Station Software page has a clear description of how the driver station software works.The FRC path to this page is TECHNICAL RESOURCES / Control System: 2013 Control System Documentation on ScreenSteps / (WPI) 2013 Control System Getting Started With the 2013 Control System : the 2013 Driver Station FRC Driver Station Software. The WPI page Getting Started With the 2013 Control System has a bunch of very helpful documents.What you need might not be in an obvious place. Amazingly, the TECHNICAL RESOURCES page has very important control system information that is not on the Control System page. There are links accross the top for things like the Control System and the Driver Station. I have found these sections to be helpful. The FRC documentation is not well layed out.

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Frc driver station setup