Labview with SparkFun 9DOF

[Sze Pei]

hi people !

i was given a project using labview to sense the motion of the board (sparkFun 9DOF )

Its like a flight motion and i have to show all the meter .

But the sad thing is, i dont even know how i should start.

Any idea ??

[Nathan_B.]

To which board are you referring and what do you mean by "show all the meter"?

[Sze Pei]

The board is sparkfun serial 9DOF . show those alitmeter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5HoE2bHvw and something like that.

it is exactly the same as the video. just that im using labview.

[Nathan_B.]

Ok, so this one.  Because it uses serial communication and you want to use it with Arduino, you will, at the very least, need to create custom functions in the LIFA firmware to do this.  I'm not entirely sure but it may also require programming that board itself since it uses an ATmega328.

To make things simpler, IMO, it would be better to use one that you can uses I2C.

[Sze Pei]

but now, i cant even connect the Sparkfun serial 9DOF board to my labview =(

[Nathan_B.]

It certainly is possible but you would likely want to communicate with it directly via serial communication.  However, this would require writing the equivalent to LIFA specifically for that board.  I don't know how difficult that would be but I imagine it wouldn't be all that easy.

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After reading through some of the comments on Sparkfun's page I found a person who says they have LabVIEW code to communicate with this device.  I don't know what all is involved in getting it working but it's a start.

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-18964

[Sze Pei]

so which program i have to download first in order to connect my sparkfun serial 9DOF board.

sorry if im asking all sots of stupid question cause its my first time doing it. and i really got no knowledge of it .

[Nathan_B.]

I'm not entirely sure what all you need or what order you need to do it.  You should download all the files and look for some documentation.  Other than that, I can't really help you because I don't have any of this stuff to test with.