LabVIEW

LabVIEW is a graphical programming language, and it has powerful features for simulation, control and DAQ applicarions.

In addition to LabVIEW Professional Edition, we have LabVIEW Community Edition, which is a free edition of LabVIEW your non-commercial personal projects.

LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit

The LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit adds support for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and BeagleBone embedded platforms in LabVIEW.

Note! The LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit has replaced the LabVIEW LINX Toolkit.

LabVIEW LINX Toolkit is an add-on for LabVIEW which makes it possible to program these devices using LabVIEW.

You download the LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit using the NI Package Manager (comes with the LabVIEW software) or you can downloaf from the NI Software Download Page. You need of course first to have LabVIEW installed.

Getting Started with the LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit.

Arduino

Arduino is a Microcontroller. Arduino is an open-source platform with Input/Output Pins (Digital In/Out, Analog In and PWM). Price about $20 or an Arduino Starter Kit ~$40-80.

LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit with Arduino

Here we will use the LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit in combination with the Arduino UNO device.

This Tutorial shows how we can use Arduino in combination with the LabVIEW Programming environment. LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit is an add-on for LabVIEW which makes it possible to program the Arduino device using LabVIEW. In that way we can create Data Logging Applications, etc. without the need of an expensive DAQ device. If you don’t have LabVIEW Professional Software, you may use the LabVIEW Community Edition (free for non-commercial use). Then you will get a very low-cost DAQ/Datalogging System!

Note! The LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit does not yet support the new Arduino UNO R4 or the Arduno UNO WiFi Rev2 edition. This means the LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit only supports the Arduino UNO R3 edition. Hopefulle this will change soon.

Tutorial:

LabVIEW Hobbyist with Arduino Tutorial (Note! The LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit has replaced the LabVIEW LINX Toolkit. )

You download the LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit using the NI Package Manager (comes with the LabVIEW software).

Videos:

Introduction to LabVIEW Hobbyist and Arduino (YouTube)

LabVIEW Hobbyist Arduino DAQ System (YouTube)

LabVIEW Hobbyist Arduino Temperature Sensors (YouTube)

Note! The LabVIEW Hobbyist Toolkit has replaced the LabVIEW LINX Toolkit.

Code:

Download Code

Additional LabVIEW Hobbyist Resources:

LabVIEW Hobbyist, Arduino and ThingSpeak (YouTube) + PowerPoint (PDF)