Manickum Oliver - Programming Arduino with LabVIEW: build interactive and fun learning projects with Arduino using LabVIEW

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from SUPELEC in France and a master's degree in micro engineering from the EPFL in Switzerland.

He has more than 5 years of experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. His interests gravitate around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing.

He also runs several websites on Arduino, including the http://www.openhomeautomation.net/ website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware.

He has written another book called Arduino Home Automation Projects , Packt Publishing , on home automation and Arduino and also published a book called Internet of Things with the Arduino , on how to build Internet-of-Things projects with Arduino.

Oliver Manickum has been working in the embedded development scene for almost 20 years. His favorite development platform is Arduino. He has delivered thousands of projects and is a big fan of ATMEL and the Arduino platform. He currently writes high-performance games on mobile platforms; however, developing prototypes with Arduino is his main hobby.

He has also reviewed Netduino Home Automation Projects , Matt Cavanagh .

I would like to thank my wife, Nazia Osman, for her patience while I was building devices that would sometimes burn down parts of our house, over and over again.

Adith Jagadish Boloor is an undergraduate student at the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette. He was born and brought up in the beautiful coastal city of Mangalore, India. Having lived there for 18 years, he came to the United States of America to pursue his higher education, with the desire to acquire new skills pertaining to the latest technological developments, and with this knowledge, he hopes to revolutionize the robotics sector.

Having built a couple of robots in his high-school days, his primary interest lies in the field of robotics. However, he occasionally occupies himself in areas that are still at their infancy, such as 3D Printing and Speech Recognition. More recently, he has begun his exploration in home automation, wireless networking, the Internet of Things, and smart security systems.

His passion for kindling the benefits of technology is what drives him towards open source and to create a smarter planet.

Aaron Srivastava is a biomedical engineer from North Carolina State University. He is currently working on a neurosurgery project to aid patients undergoing spinal cord stimulation treatments. His main interests are in entrepreneurship, business development, and programming languages. Aaron also does web designing, on the side, as a hobby.

Fangzhou Xia is a dual-degree senior student at University of Michigan, with a background in both mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. His areas of interest in mechanical engineering are system control, product design, and manufacturing automation. His areas of interest in electrical engineering are web application development, embedded system implementation, and data acquisition system setup.

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Preface

Arduino is a powerful electronics prototyping platform used by millions of people around the world to build amazing projects. Using Arduino, it is possible to easily connect sensors and physical objects to a microcontroller, without being an expert in electronics.

However, using Arduino still requires us to know how to write code in C/C++, which is not easy for everyone. This is where LabVIEW comes into play. LabVIEW is software used by many professionals and universities around the world, mainly to automate measurements without having to write a single line of code.

Thanks to a module called LINX, it is actually very easy to interface Arduino and LabVIEW. This means that we will be able to control Arduino projects without having to type a single line of code. The possibilities are endless, and in this book, we will focus on several exciting projects in order for you to discover the key features of the LabVIEW Arduino interface.