Communicating between LabVIEW and Basic Stamp 2.0

Hello,
We are trying to control the movement of a Parallax Boe-Bot (robot with
Board of Education) via LabView programming. The BOE operates on
Basic Stamp programming to control the pulse width sent to two servo
motors.
Is there a way to establish communication between LabVIEW and Basic
Stamp 2.0? We need to send commands from LabVIEW to the
Basic Stamp to control the pulse width and therefore the rotation of
the two servo motors. We also need to send a signal from an
accelerometer based on the robot to the LabVIEW ADC.
The ultimate goal is to do this with wireless communication, but for
right now we are simply trying to figure out any way to send the data
between LabVIEW and the Basic Stamp.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Adam

Hi Adam,
You can communicate with a BASIC Stamp microcontroller over GPIB using VISA. To see some LabVIEW example code, just search for GPIB in the NI Example Finder (Help>>Find Examples). This will show you the basics of GPIB communication in LabVIEW. I also found this link by searching the NI discussion forums for "basic stamp"
http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/downloads/software/software_basic_stamp.asp
Here you can download an example using LabVIEW 7.0 or higher to communicate with a BASIC Stamp 2.
I hope this is helpful! Let us know if you have further questions.
Megan B.
National Instruments

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