Blog Post #21 for 11-17

EXERCISE #1

In the first part of class today, we used LabView connected to LabQuest in order to create the lights on the front of the car from Knight Rider. 

Knight Rider

My Lights

Front Panel

Block Diagram

EXERCISE #2

In this exercise, we built a program in LabView that would control two relay switches connected to a LabQuest control board. The buttons on the front panel control the switches on the relay, and the stop button shuts down the whole program. The way we had this wired required an input to the DIG Channel of 0 to keep both relays on, 3 to keep the right one on, 4 to keep the left on, and 7 to turn both relays off. The triangle on the front panel has no function other than to make the UI look like a face.

Front Panel

Block Diagram