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NI News Academic Edition  February 2012  
Your Resource for Research, Teaching, and Learning With NI LabVIEW ni.com/academic
In This Issue
Top 5 Sweet Apps by NI Customers Using NI Product Solutions

1. Stay Smelly My Friends: A Unique Security and Automated Recognition System

2. Christmas Cheer in the New Year: Synchronized Light Display From a Lockheed Engineer

3. The Quest for Higgs Boson at CERN

4. Got Milk? Using Solar Energy to Chill Out

5. Visualizing Noise Emitted by High-Speed Trains

>> What's your favorite sweet app?

 
Teach and Learn Mechatronics, Power Electronics, and Digital Circuits Through Practical Application   The Need for Time: Why Students Choose NI LabVIEW Again and Again
 Teach and Learn Mechatronics, Power Electronics, and Digital Circuits Through Practical Application   The Need for Time: Why Students Choose NI LabVIEW Again and Again
With the latest version of NI Multisim circuit design software, you can access new power and machine components and co-simulate analog and digital systems in LabVIEW software to apply concepts in mechatronics, power electronics, and digital circuits


See the Multisim applications in courses and student design »
 

“The one thing you always need more of, is time.” Hear engineering and computer science students share in their own words how using LabVIEW helps them build working applications in hours instead of weeks or even months.



Watch the video »

Teaching Tools

Teach Tough Concepts: Tutorial on Closed-Loop Control With a DC Motor
Traditionally, tuning a controller requires multiple iterations of trial and error to perfect. In this tutorial, learn how to use LabVIEW to tune your controller in real time and move directly into verification with seamless hardware integration.

See the video and tutorial »


A Creative Boost Leads to New Experiments: University College Ghent Reinvigorates Curricula

See how one department used a common platform to free students from the constraints of an electronics lab. The results reduced the time faculty needed to create exercises and experiments, which left more time to improve the quality of the lab exercises.

Learn how they did it »

Pitch Control Game Demonstrates Audio Processing

Illustrate the theory and operation of microphone preamplifiers and acquiring audio signals with a LabVIEW application that tests your ability to sing with the proper pitch.

Get the setup instructions and example code »


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Research Lab

6 Tips and Tricks to Increase LabVIEW Performance
Performance bottlenecks with LabVIEW require significant modifications to the code architecture. With many LabVIEW applications, however, simple tips and tricks can improve performance and eliminate unnecessary overhead.

Read the tips and tricks »

Switchblade: Meet the Agile Mobile Robot That Navigates Rubble and Stairs
University of California researchers and students used LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO to design, simulate, and deploy a controller to a robot that can change its own center of mass.

See Switchblade in action »

An Earthquake on Demand Shakes Things Up
University of Nevada researchers built a 145-foot long bridge on shake tables to curve around the entire perimeter of their laboratory, using LabVIEW, PXI, and NI CompactRIO for monitoring.

Watch a video of the system in action »

Student Corner

Rock Out on an NI myDAQ Air Guitar
Now you don't have to be the only one hearing the music. Download example code and setup instructions for creating your very own NI myDAQ air guitar.

Get the instructions »

Do You Know LabVIEW? Test Your Skills
Take short quizzes to evaluate your understanding of the LabVIEW environment and other programming basics. Then try your hand at cumulative tests, exercises, and projects.

See how well you know LabVIEW »

Students Build a Virtual Whiteboard in Less Than a Day
Using only a Microsoft Kinect, a laptop, and LabVIEW, undergraduate engineering students at Brigham Young University built an application that acts as a virtual whiteboard. The Kinect depth sensor tracks where a person is in the field and overlays it on the video image.

See the whiteboard demo»
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