Labview Arduino Mega Interface

[Dennis_Knutson]

Since you already have serial communication between the arduino and LabVIEW, why do you think you need additional hardware?

The arduino sketch is editable so you can modify the initialization routine to suit your needs.

[twardak.m]

Hi Dennis_Knutson!

Of course you're right. IF you have serial communication. I wasn't working a lot with arduino, only with Atmel microcontrollers, so I'm not sure what is a way for programming arduino boards? I was sure that you need to use some kind of programmer (USBASP, STK500 and so on). Not every programmer has option to serial communication. But it is really good point for Tiho. If you actually have some kind of serial communication you do not need additional hardware. Thank you Dennis for pointing that.

Now Tiho some tips for you 🙂 First of all I would like to say that you will need to program a little in C, but you only need the basics.

1. Write the serial communication for microcontroller on arduino board. Here you have great tutorial: http://maxembedded.com/2013/09/the-usart-of-the-avr/ If you are beginner it can be a little complicated for you but it is really worth to put some effort and understand everything. Believe me, it will be big profit in the future for you! And, if you would have questions just ask 🙂

2. Actually I started to write short tutorial for you and I found this... http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-and-LabVIEW/?ALLSTEPS. That's really all you need 🙂

Good luck with your project! I hope you will show us the result when you finish 🙂 (maybe some link to youtube?) 

Best Regards