LabView and Ultrasonic Rangefinder

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by DominickC

And if I wanted to import the example code into the example teleop.vi, could I just copy/paste the code in, and put it within a while loop which becomes true when a button on the joystick is pressed? (thus ranging once and displaying one distance in the dashboard)?

NI created a tutorial on adding data to the dashboard. https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-14704

The major recommendation I would make is that instead of reading the data from the sensor the build dashboard data vi as shown, I would read the data where you want it (either teleop or periodic tasks) and save it in a global variable, and then read the global variable in the build dashboard data vi.

[Doug Norman]

Also, Tutorial 7 from the LabVIEW Getting Started Window shows how to send data to the dashboard. See Part 2 of that tutorial.

[DominickC]

Thank you all for your help and references!

I read and tried to follow the tutorial from NI step by step, but left more confused than when I began. Then, I went through tutorial 7 from LabView's Getting Started Window. Now I feel that I have a grasp on what's going on.

I'll give it a crack and post my results.

[DominickC]

Great news! I was able to properly code in the rangefinder!

Now, one final question. I read somewhere that there should only be one Set High(/Low) User Data Priority per vi? If this is so, how would I integrate the Gyro, Accelerometer, Rangefinder, and Potentiometer in with each other ?