The make controller seemed so nice and useful, at the beginning. Today, after I bought it, it is useless. Does anybody know about an interface to labview? This Is the only way for me to program and control it, so I be glad to find or buy a labview VI that controls it.
It is unfortunate that you deam somthing useless if it doe not have a LabView interface, particularly since my experience with labview has been such a bloody pain. Well, If you deside to pitch it I am sure that there are a number of us that can find it a loving home.
For example, a friend's 13 year old boy put down learning to program computers as one of his top 10 rewards for doing better in school. I scrounged him and his brother up a couple of old desktops, but I can only imagine what the two of them would do with a Make Controller ;-)
Assuming that you do not want to get rid of it, the website lists a number of interfaces including OSC, MAX, and programming in C. In addition, there are toolsets which are freely downloadable (whereas LabView costs a LOT -- I was quoted $4,000, IIRC, for a non-teaching non-comercial university research license)...
labview has all SORTS of ways you can create function blocks to perform serial, TCP and USB connectivity.
you just have to sit down and write the interface you want. Serial is a good place to start since you don't seem to know what direction to go right now.
i.e. on the make, you tell it to send a byte of data. on the PC you tell labview what to do when it receives that certain byte.
labview isn't just made for devices that drivers are written for. You have to program some stuff to make it work. You tell the make controller what to send/receive and then hook to the computer and have the function block connect the two.
It sounds to me like you haven't searched much on how to get serial or ethernet working with labview. I have done several projects involving wireless TCP/IP and serial communication back in college. And that was an OLD version of labview. There's tons of info out there to look at. I'll see if I can find any info I have at home. Meanwhile, look on labview's site and go through tutorials.