Summary

You learned how to build an Arduino-powered robot, which can be controlled remotely via XBee. We also interfaced this robot with LabVIEW, first to move it around and then, to measure the distance in front of the robot via an ultrasonic sensor.

There are, of course, several ways to improve this project. The first one will be to add more sophisticated controls for the robot. For example, you can use the basic command blocks we defined for the robot to create controls that make the robot move forward, backward, turn left, and so on. You can also create automated commands inside the program, for example, to make the robot go backward when it detects an obstacle in front of the sensor.

I hope that this book gave you a good overview of what is possible using LabVIEW along with Arduino. The possibilities are endless, and you can create really exciting projects using LabVIEW to control your Arduino projects, and all this without writing one line of code! At the time of writing this book,...