myWirelessTransceiver

[DanHarryman]

Introduction

myWirelessTransceiver is a small project powered by an NI myDAQ and LabVIEW. Each year all of the Application Engineer interns at NI UK take a week to design and build a myDAQ project. This myDAQ project uses a set of IR LEDs to transmit signals wirelessly. These are designed to be labs that could be run at a university to show a course related concept and introduce them to LabVIEW.

For this project I have written a step by step guide for people who want to use or run through this lab. I have also made a short video that is embedded below. This small project shows how signals can be sent wirelessly and easily processed to perform tasks such as controlling iTunes.

Video

Materials

IR LED and Diode set

Range of ressistors

Push button

myDAQ

myDAQ protoboard

Separate small bread board

Software

This entire project is powered by LabVIEW where it processed the signals to control iTunes by using ActiveX controls. The majority of this code is written using express VIs. Normally I would recommend using lower level DAQmx functions but using these makes the code more readable and more accessible to people with less LabVIEW experience.

Additional information

Feel free to make any comments on this tutorial and you may use and edit the code as you wish.