To change between modes, right click on the label then choose the appropriate mode. If the label is an orange box with the name of your NXT brick, you are in Remote mode. If the label read Main Application Instance, you are currently in Direct mode. To check which mode you will be running the program, check the label on the bottom left corner of the NXT brick. In Remote mode, you download the program to the NXT brick with USB or Bluetooth and the program runs directly on the NXT brick without any communication from the computer.

In Direct mode, you run the program from the computer and communicate with the NXT brick with either USB or Bluetooth. There are two different modes you can use to run your program: Direct mode and Remote mode. Right click the bottom left connector of display control, select Create → Constant. For example, click on the text box on the bottom of display control to view the different instances of display control you can create. The VIs in the NXT I/O palette are called polymorphic VIs, meaning the VI has different instance you can choose from with the polymorphic VI selector. Open I/O palettes → Display to create a display control. On the block diagram, right click to access function palettes. Follow the same steps to access these palettes. Deselect all options, then choose MINDSTORMS Robotics as the only visible pallete.īlock diagram has its own sets of function palettes in MINDSTORMS Robotics section and you must use them to work with NXT brick. Click the downward arrow at bottom of control palette, then select Change Visible Palettes. To simplify this process, right click on front panel. You must use these palettes to operate with NXT brick.

Right click on front panel and navigate to MINDSTORMS Robotics section. You must use palettes from MINDSTORMS Robotics section.

The original sets of palettes from LabVIEW will not operate with NXT brick. LabVIEW Module for LEGO MINDSTORMS adds completely separated sets of control and function palettes to LabVIEW. If only front panel appeared, click on Window on top of front panel toolbar, → Show Block Diagram. On the Robot Project Center, click on Programs → New VI → VI for NXT/EV3 Target and name this VI “Hello World”.Ī blank front panel and a blank block diagram should appear. This example will show you how to display Hello World! message on the NXT brick screen.

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