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Originally Posted by Bruce Barber
We are (as already stated in my first post) attempting to create a Multi-meter. But it sounds like this wont work...?  Is it possible to do something similar? |
Bruce, I think you may have me at a disadvantage - your "team affiliation" states you're affiliated with FIRST LEGO League team #1320, so I have no way of determining if you're on an NI Pilot Program team. Beyond that, there are a couple things we'll need to determine:
- What device are you going to use for the multimeter, i.e. how are you planning on acquiring the voltage and/or current readings? (e.g. NI USB-6009, something with an ADC, DMM with PC interface, etc...)
- Once you have the readings, what bus/interface do you want to use to transfer those readings into your computer? (e.g. USB, Serial, LPT, Bluetooth, IrDA, etc...)
I assume you're using the LabVIEW 8.0 Student Edition provided in your FIRST Kit of Parts this year - if so, and you plan on using a National Instruments product as your multimeter, you need to be downloading files from the following location (It's still 466MB, unfortunately):
ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/daq/pc/ni-d...0/NIDAQ800.zip
Please give me some kind of idea as to how you plan on making your multimeter, and we can discuss the best way to integrate it with LabVIEW.
-Danny