Legality of Arduino Programming

[z_beeblebrox]

Originally Posted by inkspell4

My wording may have been incorrect....

The Arduino can be interfaced with labview using a direct usb cable or a wireless setup. Downloading the correct packages you may be able to put an xbee equipped Arduino on your robot and have it send info to a paired xbee connected by usb to a laptop which then could be accessed through a custom labview dashboard.

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/209835


Disclaimer: My former team did not work with controllers other than the crio on our robot so i do not know if this would be legal

Wireless communication other than using the bridge is not legal.

[inkspell4]

Thats what i thought but my team had no reason to think about the rule so i wasn't sure.

You may also be able to use an arduino with ethernet capabilities

[protoserge]

One option is to use LabVIEW to construct an Ethernet interface that is addressed to the Arduino Uno (you'd need the Ethernet shield).

Program the Arduino using the sketch editor and communicate with the cRIO using UDP.

If this works correctly, you should be able to use the Arduino in one of two configurations. In the slave configuration, you would do the LED programming in LabVIEW and tell the Arduino which pins to activate and at what rate. The other option would be to use LabVIEW to send data values to the Arduino to process and determine the LED pins and rates. There is also the third method, which would be a combination of both.