Can I use LabPro with LabVIEW?

Absolutely, and we have lots of free sample VIs on our web site to help you get going. Check out www.vernier.com/labview.

Vernier Software & Technology has always encouraged instructors and students to do their own programming using our lab interfaces and sensors. We started experimenting with LabVIEW in 1999. In 2001, we introduced our first VIs for LabPro. Since then we have improved these samples and added new ones. We feel that LabVIEW is a great way for people to quickly develop LabPro programs projects, or just for programming experience. We now have a full-time LabVIEW programmer and we use LabVIEW for some of our own projects. In the summer of 2003, we started working extensively with LabVIEW 7 Express.

Here is a summary of some of the materials that are available on our web site, which are related to using LabPro with LabVIEW. You can get to all of this by going to www.vernier.com/labview. We actually have separate downloads for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux version of the source code.

Simple LabVIEW 5.1 VIs
These are very simple VIs, which will collect data or control the analog or digital output lines of a LabPro. Since they are simple, they are relatively easy to understand and can be a good place to start your LabVIEW programming. They were written with LabVIEW 5.1, so they can be loaded into older versions of LabVIEW, if that is all you have.

Analog Data Collection
Collects analog data from up to four sensors at various data rates from very slow to very fast. The data are graphed. A data table is displayed and the data can be exported as a file. This VI uses the state machine programming architecture.

LabPro Technical Reference Manual
The LabPro Technical Reference Manual at: http://www.vernier.com/mbl/labpro.html, is a booklet of about 100 pages with all the details of how Vernier LabPro operates. It is an essential reference for serious LabPro programming.