Computer Control and Interfacing with the NI MyRIO

The previous two installments in this series of five articles about the National Instruments’ (NI) MyRIO have demonstrated how to input from a built-in pushbutton (BUTTON0) and output to a built-in LED (LED0), and control these wirelessly from an Apple iPad. While this is a good start into computer control, the “real world” outside of the MyRIO unit typically involves I/O to much higher AC and DC voltages and currents than the MyRIO can tolerate.

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