Drivers In Labview Books
Labview Serial Driver
You only need the usual VISA stuff for serial port access. The rest is pretty simple.I have some labview 7 code somewhere that I used to talk to an arduino board. It was used to poll a few sensors on a stepper motor stage. Labview sends a single letter to query the board and gets back the current counter value for each sensor.I've attached a zip with the labview code and the arduino's firmware. Scaffolding the handbook of estimating and product knowledge for sales. It uses a now obsolete library to talk to a MAX7221.
You can throw that one out, as it's only for a display and not needed for the serial stuff. You'll get the idea how to get going.The 'tester'.vi is used as a stand alone, whereas the other.vi is basically the same, but integrates easier with others as a sub-vi.Now you only need a demo version of labview.
Maybe National Instruments still offer that. I have a book named 'LabView for Everyone' that came with a demo I think. Quite a few years old though. But the basic serial I/O using the VISA stuff is pretty basic and should work. It was in version 5.1 as well, and that is well. Stone age;-)This is the back panel spaghetti code.
LabVIEW is widely taught in academic classrooms and labs to help students increase their rate of discovery, build solutions faster, and improve their success. This textbook provides an instructional and experimental approach for students to learn LabVIEW. It was written specifically with students in mind, offering explanations and activities that cover not only features and capabilities of LabVIEW, but also the computational thinking elements behind them. Each textbook includes a serial number for LabVIEW Student Edition, which offers all the capabilities of the full version of LabVIEW.