How do you control seperate motors with Labview through a remote control?

[LoudSilence]

Forgive me if I am not typing the question correctly, or if it is a stupid question. I am only fourteen and only started learning about Labview.. I would appreciate all help possible. Thanks

[jon_mcbee]

What type of motors are you trying to control?  How do you have them/plan to have them connected to your computer?  When you say you want to control remotely, do you mean that you don't want them connected to a computer or that you want to communicate remotely through your computer (no cables)?  The more information you can give the better help you will receive.

Cheers

[Sorooshster]

Hi LouidSilence,

It would also be helpful to know what version of LabVIEW you are using.  It's impressive that your starting to learn LabVIEW at such a young age, it will be challenging but worth it! 

[LoudSilence]

Well first off, thanks for asking questions to my questions, it helps me too 🙂 The kind of motors I am trying to control are IFI Robotics Multi-Speed Motor Connect to PWM or RLY port (12 volt).. I am trying to remotely control it wirelessly, through an IFI Robotics Isaac16 EDU Robot Controller with 900MHz Short Range Radio Modem. Hope this Helps..

[LoudSilence]

Oh yeah, and the version of LabView I am using is 8.5

[Sorooshster]

Hi LoudSilence,

It looks like your controller is designed to be programmed in BASIC.  What you will need to do in order to control it with LabVIEW is figure out what the function calls are that will be required to activate your PMW signals etc.  This is a discontinued controller but I'll see if I can find some documentation.  Once you know what the controller needs (a hex code for instance) then you can program LabVIEW to send and receive signals from the controller using VISA commands.  Before going any further...you said you were pretty new to LabVIEW.  You might try going through some basic tutorials (like this one) to get familiarized with the LabVIEW programming environment.