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February 10, 2009
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Exploring Robotics with LabVIEW   Meet Medical Device Grant Recipients
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Discover how students of all ages are using LabVIEW to develop applications that address real-world problems through research and robotics without learning complex programming languages.

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  See how five recipients of the 2008 NI medical device grant program used NI technology to quickly design and prototype their innovative solutions and learn how you can apply in 2009.

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Developer Resources

Best Practices for Machine Control
Learn how you can build machine control applications on NI CompactRIO controllers with this architecture overview, which illustrates best practices and provides a framework for designing industrial control applications.
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Example Code: Basic Calculus
Download this code and plot the graph of the polynomial function and its first and second derivatives; compute and plot the local minima, maxima, and the inflection points; and perform more operations on a polynomial function.
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Webcast: Adding a Touch Panel Computer
Watch this webcast for step-by-step instructions on how you can add a touch panel computer to your industrial system.
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NI Multisim Circuits Teaching Resources
Download this resource kit to help you teach circuit concepts in the classroom using industry-standard Multisim, the NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS), and LabVIEW.
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Top Five Tools for Easier Automated Measurements
Discover the top five tools provided by NI digital multimeters (DMMs) and learn how you can make programmatic measurements and switching easier to implement and more reliable.
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New Products and Technologies

10 Factors to Consider for High-Speed Digital Application Development
Explore your options and important considerations when choosing the best digital device for your digital interfacing applications.
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Modal Parameter Extraction LabVIEW VIs
Download these modal parameter algorithms to easily identify the modal parameters of a structure such as natural frequency, damping ratio, and mode shapes.
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NI Technology Used in EcoCAR Competition
See how teams in the 2009 EcoCAR Challenge will use NI products to design, prototype, and deploy vehicle designs and tackle the unique algorithm engineering challenges associated with developing advanced hybrid vehicles.
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Developing ARM Applications to Communicate via CAN
Explore how you can use the LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers 1.1 to communicate over a controller area network (CAN) bus.
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Performing Preventive Wind Turbine Monitoring
Learn how you can use NI products to monitor wind turbines for preventive measures to extend turbine life cycle, schedule maintenance, and predict fault conditions.
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Events and Training

Virtual User Group: Software Engineering Practices for LabVIEW
Register for this live webcast to learn about the typical development life cycle and the best practices and recommendations for programming with LabVIEW in a structured development environment.
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NIWeek 2009: Present Your Technical Content
Find out how you can be a part of the 15th annual worldwide graphical system design conference, August 4-6, in Austin, Texas, by submitting your applications and solutions for an NIWeek session slot.
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LabVIEW Real-Time Skill Evaluation Quiz
Determine which LabVIEW Real-Time training courses are right for you by taking this 10-question quiz to review your application development skills.
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Top Five Case Studies of 2008 
1. Life-Saving Robots Powered by NI LabVIEW »
2. Performing Structural Health Monitoring of the 2008 Olympic Venues »
3. Developing Real-Time Control for the World's Largest Telescope »
4. Moving Ramses II with LabVIEW, PXI »
5. CERN Controls Particle Accelerator with NI LabVIEW »
NI in the Press
Take the FPGA Plunge »
The Brainstorm: Third-Party Testing »
The Economy Tanks While FPGAs Grow »
COTS Products: FPGA-Based I/O Module Family Rides PXI »

Community News
New LabVIEW Career Network
Find a new job, boost your resume, or get training on the latest technologies by joining this global networking group of engineers and scientists.
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LabVIEW Tool of the Month
Drivers for Wireless Sensor Networks
Discover how you can integrate ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4, or proprietary wireless sensors into the LabVIEW graphical development environment.
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