Best Approach for Ultrasonic Sonar using PIC or Arduino

[giorgio2]

Hello everyone,

I have been looking in many threads but couldn't find anything similar. 

I want to make an Ultrasonic Sonar using the famous HC-SR04 sensor or similar. 

The idea is to use an stepper motor to rotate the sensor 360° continuously and then a PIC18FXXX or Arduino to interface it (Via USB) with LabView and then display all the data coming from the sensor in real time in a polar plot or similar, like in is this video (Simultaneous Sonar Measurements with NI X Series DAQ, in Youtube) but instead of 5 sensors only 1 and without using the NI DAQ. Do you guys think is possible with a Pic or Arduino or will it be too complicated?

1) Any recommendation using PIC or Arduino to achieve that? (I think PIC is more challenging, right?)

2) Is it possible to display with LabView like if it was a Radar scanning 360°? (The polar plot is the similar one I found but it's not really what I want)

I want to run this project for learning purposes. I'm quite new with LabView, planning to take my CLAD exam very soon 🙂

Best regards and thanks in advance.

Giorgio

[giorgio2]

No one can help me?

Apprreciate.

Regards

[0utlaw]

Hello Giorgio2,

You'll want to post Arduino-related questions here at the LabVIEW Interface for Arduino (LIFA) community:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/labview-interface-for-arduino?view=overview

That user group has considerably more experience with Arduino-based solutions than the general LabVIEW forum.

Regards,

[Petru.T]

Hello Giorgio2,

As 0utlaw mentioned, you stand a better chance of getting useful replies to your query if you post in the LabVIEW Interface for Arduino (LIFA) community discussion forum. 

These are a few good links to get you started with LIFA:

1. https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/labview-interface-for-arduino?view=discussions  - LIFA forum

2. https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-16024 - LIFA FAQs

3. https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-15971 LIFA Setup Procedure

After you’ve installed LIFA on your computer as described in link 3, you will be able to see a number of LIFA examples in the LabVIEW Example finder. I attach here a screenshot of the examples found on my laptop. There is an IR sensor example and a stepper motor example, so that is pretty simmilar to what you want to do.

Hope this information helps. 

[CarlosOtiniano]

a possible solution, this program reads the PING sensor on pin D2 and trasnmite Arduino from the serial port, the LabVIEW program takes you reading port that the Arduino transmits data