Summary

Let's summarize what we did in this chapter. We connected a temperature sensor and a light-level sensor to Arduino and built a simple LabVIEW program to read data from these sensors. Then, we built a nice graphical interface to visualize the data coming from these sensors.

There are many ways you can build other projects based on what you learned in this chapter. You can, for example, connect higher temperatures and/or more light-level sensors to the Arduino board and display these measurements in the interface. You can also connect other kinds of sensors that are supported by LabVIEW, for example, other analog sensors. For example, you can add a barometric pressure sensor or a humidity sensor to the project to build an even more complete weather-measurement station.

One other interesting extension of this chapter will be to use the storage and plotting capabilities of LabVIEW to dynamically plot the history of the measured data inside the LabVIEW interface.

In the next chapter, we...