mydaq labview programming
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7/29/2019 MyDAQ LabVIEW Programming
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National Instruments Summer Internships:
LabVIEW programming.
Project carried out by: Thomas lloyd and Koye Sodipo
E-Mail: [email protected]
Supervisors: Danielle George and Peter Green
E-Mail: [email protected] & [email protected]
National Instruments Summer Internship Projects
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester
This was a project that was aiming to teach students how to
use and program LabView with the end result as a virtual
Car Dashboard. The car dashboard helps to teach key
LabView and programming concepts in an fun an easy to
understand way. The exercises go through loops, case
statements and timing while also explaining how variables
can be linked together to calculate the rpm, torque and
horsepower.
Car Dashboardl To create and develop fun ways to teach and
familiarise students with programming and the
LabView environment.
Project aims
Our final project was the idea of teaching
LabView via a playable game that the
students could build from scratch. The
game we decided to create was based on
the classic "Whack a mole" game except
instead of moles, we used pictures of first
year lecturers! The game utilizes the
keyboard or custom built I/O board to "hitthe moles". Points are awarded for a
successful hit and points are deducted for
a miss. The game also has a 5 level system
that changes the difficulty of the game.
We also decided to add a "Most whacked
lecturer" statistic so that players of the
game could see which lecturer they hit the
most.
Labview Clock
Whack-a-mole game.
The LabView alarm clock was a project that aimed
to teach students concepts ranging from the basic
(opening a new LabView project) to the advanced(Arrays, case structures). When the exercises are
completed the resulting project is a fully functional
alarm clock that utilizes a seven segment display,
and has alarm and snooze functions. I tried a
variety of ways to deliver these exercises and
settled on providing them in a PDF format with step
by step instructions. These instructions would be
accompanied by finished LabView projects so that
they could use it as a reference.
l We created a series of exercises that provided a
step by step approach to developing fun projects
in Labview. The projects were designed so that
they would be interesting to first year students
and would encourage them to try the exercises intheir spare time.
How this was achieved