Summary

Let's summarize what we did in this chapter. We connected a DC motor to Arduino via a dedicated chip to control DC motors. Then, we built an interface in LabVIEW so that we could easily control the direction and speed of this motor. This will be very useful in Chapter 7, A Remotely Controlled Mobile Robot, of this book, especially when we will build a robot controlled via LabVIEW.

To go further with what you learned in this chapter, there are some things you can do. You can add more motors to the projects and command them all from a single VI in LabVIEW. You can also use what you learned in this chapter to control simpler components such as LEDs.

This chapter was all about controlling outputs. In the next chapter, we will see how to get data from the inputs of the Arduino board and automate measurements using LabVIEW.