LabVIEW
Foot Force Sensor
First install LabVIEW and the needed drivers (NIDAQmx for a starter, which should be installed when you install LabVIEW). This should also result in the installation of the National Instruments Measurement and Automation Explorer, referred to colloquially as MAX on these forums. This tool is VERY helpful when you are beginning a hardware project as it can allow you to talk to a lot of hardware before writing a bit of code (in any language), which allows you to troubleshoot hardware setups and connections separately from debugging your program. You mention a wireless DAQ, is it a National Instruments one? If so that is good, because MAX doesn't "play" with other companies' DAQ hardware, with the exception of those that are talked to through VISA (a driver abstraction that allows communications with serial, GPIB,TCP based instruments), but a non-NI wireless DAQ probably won't fall into this later categories. If it isn't a National Instruments DAQ all isn't lost, it will just be more difficult. You say the circuit you have configured. Do you mean designed, or have you connected and "configured" this, gotten information out of it? As to where the VI for the example you refereed to, probably on one of the author's laptops, or a CD in some professor's desk. The PDF diagram shows the entire vi, it would be mildly educational to replicate it from scratch, but I say mildly because it will have removed much of the thought process from solving the problem, will only be showing someone how to find the various components, which isn't very educational.
Look at your force sensors, see what their outputs are, voltage, resistance, whatever. Then try and determine how to take what is probably a small signal, which would be prone to picking up environmental electrical noise, and figure how to amplify the signal to a useable level. You determine what would be a useable level by looking at the requirements of the DAQ units inputs. Are the signals big enough? Do they change value at a rate/frequency that is compatible with the DAQ's inputs. You then build a basic VI to capture these signals, maybe display them (if the DAQ is compatible with MAX you can check out the hardware connections using that, which can also show you what kind of issues of electrical noise, etc., you may have.) Then once you have the basic VI working and successfully acquiring data you can start focusing on what to do with the data, what kind of "signal processing" you may have to perform to "clean up" the data to get at the underlying information.
But just copying someone else's work may get you the grade, but really won't help you when you actually have to do this from scratch in the real world. Make your mistakes in school, they are more forgiven, there usually are more resources to turn to for help, it is the place to make them. Not that you won't make mistakes once you are in the "real world", but it is usually better to do it in the "nest" of academia.
