Mindstorms

[doobs]

Hi wireworkers,

Has anyone used LabVIEW with a Lego Mindstorms Unit? I've got the RoboLAB
thing from Dacta and it is a scaled down version of LabVIEW. I started to
wonder if it might be possible to do my software in LabVIEW and zap it over.

There are several hurdles that I see, the translation from LabVIEW to the
binary code that the Mindstorms units needs as well as the transmission across
the IR serial interface.

I haven't really played with the RoboLAB thing too much, perhaps all the
details are handled by VI's that I could run on straight LabVIEW.

If so, this could be a great avenue for newbies to learn LabVIEW at their own
pace.

Thanks in advance
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[Peter_Prinzen]

Christopher,

My employer is such a "kid", but he (we) haven't figured out how to use LV
for Mindstorms programming. There are several manuals and code around in
the web, but nothing with this topic. But if anyone find out something, please
let me know too!

Peter

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[leopoldopena@hotmail.com]

Hi there,

To do this, you can use the ActiveX that comes with the Mindstorm
software and insert it into a Labview program using an ActiveX
container. The methods and properties are documented.

Hope it helps.


Leopoldo Pena
G.P.M.I. Ingenieros


In article <39732548@newsgroups.ni.com>,
"Peter Prinzen" wrote:
>
> Christopher,
>
> My employer is such a "kid", but he (we) haven't figured out how to
use LV
> for Mindstorms programming. There are several manuals and code around
in
> the web, but nothing with this topic. But if anyone find out
something, please
> let me know too!
>
> Peter
>
> --
> Peter Prinzen, E-Mail: peter.prinzen@xon.de
> XOn Software GmbH, Luisenstr. 43, 80333 München
> Tel.: ++49 89 542716-0, Fax: ++49
89 542716-78
>
>


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[doobs]

Hey thanks for the update. I'll have a look and see.


On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 01:49:32 GMT, leopoldopena@hotmail.com wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>To do this, you can use the ActiveX that comes with the Mindstorm
>software and insert it into a Labview program using an ActiveX
>container. The methods and properties are documented.
>
>Hope it helps.
>
>
>Leopoldo Pena
>G.P.M.I. Ingenieros
>
>
>In article <39732548@newsgroups.ni.com>,
> "Peter Prinzen" wrote:
>>
>> Christopher,
>>
>> My employer is such a "kid", but he (we) haven't figured out how to
>use LV
>> for Mindstorms programming. There are several manuals and code around
>in
>> the web, but nothing with this topic. But if anyone find out
>something, please
>> let me know too
!
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> --
>> Peter Prinzen, E-Mail: peter.prinzen@xon.de
>> XOn Software GmbH, Luisenstr. 43, 80333 München
>> Tel.: ++49 89 542716-0, Fax: ++49 89 542716-78
>>
>>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.

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Christopher Dubea Phone: (504) 847-2280
Vice President of Engineering Fax: (504) 847-2282
Moving Parts L.L.C. email: cdubea@movingpart.com
P. O. Box 6117 URL: http://www.movingpart.com
Slidell, LA 70469-6117

[Seamus_C]

Hi,
I was having the same trouble as you. I found it very hard to get help as LabVIEW dont support Lego products anymore and it is very hard to communicate with Lego.
I down loaded Robolab from http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/robolabatceeo/ College/default.asp and took out the various vi's that are used most often, like "motor A foward", ect. Then I placed these vi's in the user.lib folder. This allows you to call the icons as you would anyother functions or controls.
Attached are some of the vi's I recomend you place in user.lib