LabVIEW Student Design Competition Offers Students Cash Prizes, Trips to NIWeek, and Jobs

November 2010
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In This Issue

Play Super Mario Bros. Using Your Eyes

Top 5 Sweet Apps by NI Customers With NI products

1. Can Your Lawn Mower Mow the Lawn Without You?

2. Solar Energy Lights Africa

3. An Indoor Lightning Storm, Brought to You by ArcAttack and Optical Sensing Technology

4. A Cool Way to Analyze Past Climate Data

5. Building a Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor With NI USB-DAQ

Enter the LabVIEW Student Design Competition and Win

From Undergraduates to Research Labs – The Future of Robotics Education Is Here

Show us how you're incorporating LabVIEW software into your design project by June 10, 2011, for a chance to win cash prizes and trips to NIWeek in Austin, Texas. From inexpensive medical devices to complex underwater autonomous vehicles, we want to see how students like you are engineering a better world using the LabVIEW graphical development environment. The possibilities are endless, so submit your design project, collect votes, and win.

Learn more about the 2011 competition »

Robotics education is key to training the modern engineering workforce for the future. Explore the NI LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit, DaNI, to learn how the simplicity of this out-of-the-box mobile robot platform makes it ideal for teaching robotics and mechatronics concepts or for building your first robotics project. There are no limits to the teaching and learning possibilities with robots, so get started today.

More about teaching and research with NI Robotics solutions »

Teaching Tools

Teaching Electrical Circuits With NI myDAQ
Integrate these mini-labs into your class so students can pull concepts out of a textbook and put them into real-world applications. With these NI myDAQ and LabVIEW resources, you can re-emphasize and apply concepts taught through traditional textbook and lecture.

Learn more »

Enhance Controls and Mechatronics Education With NI ELVIS and Quanser
Learn about the integrated product solution for enhancing controls and mechatronics education using NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS), LabVIEW, Quanser plug-in boards, and curriculum. Give your students practical experience and help them develop a deeper understanding of control fundamentals with these comprehensive experiments.

Learn more about NI ELVIS and Quanser »

Preparing Students for the Workforce With Industry Accepted Software
Students from Texas A&M University and the University of Manchester are prepared for the workforce with an in-depth understanding of system-level thinking and entrepreneurship. Read how educators are establishing a solid foundation in engineering and product design by selecting industry accepted software including NI Multisim, Ultiboard, and LabVIEW.

Prepare your students for the workforce »

Attention Educators
Do you have outstanding ideas for teaching high school science and technology concepts with LabVIEW software? If so, visit this page for more information about contributing and winning prizes.

Research Lab

7 Steps to Creating a Functional Prototype
Nearly 50 percent of designs are late to, or never reach, market. See how creating a functional prototype can prevent your product from being one of them.

Start saving time »

The App Store for Engineers and Scientists
See how National Instruments and LabVIEW developers are sharing valuable intellectual property (IP) through the LabVIEW Tools Network. Explore this marketplace of free and paid add-ons for engineers and scientists focused on accelerating code development or making a little extra money.

Explore the App Store »

The Top 3 Prototyping Challenges in Robotics
Part of the IEEE prototyping webcast series, this webcast aims to address three of the biggest challenges that developers face when prototyping robots. Topics addressed include integrating with sensors and actuators, implementing autonomy, and deploying deterministic control algorithms to embedded hardware. Learn how NI tools can help you meet these challenges and shorten your development time.

View now »

Student Corner

Play Super Mario Bros. Using Your Eyes
Download code that you can use to play an original Nintendo Entertainment System using only your eye movements. Developed by a team of engineers at NI known as Waterloo Labs, EyeMario is an amazing application powered by LabVIEW.

Start having fun »

Students Create an Embedded Data Acquisition and Control System for a Formula Student Car Using LabVIEW and CompactRIO
Read how University of Cardiff students participating in the Formula Student (FS) car challenge used NI CompactRIO hardware and LabVIEW software to improve vehicle analysis and maintenance by acquiring data from sensors throughout the car during test runs and race events.

Read more »

Build Your Own Karaoke Machine With NI myDAQ
If you enjoy DIY projects, learn how you can create your very own karaoke machine using LabVIEW, NI myDAQ, an iPod, and headphones. Hollywood is calling.

Start building »

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