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December 18, 2007
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Build a Stepper Motion Control System   New NI Smart Cameras, Powered by LabVIEW
 
Follow three easy steps to select your hardware components, configure your system, and develop your software application.

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  NI Smart Cameras are powerful new tools for the engineer looking for an easy-to-use, complete solution for machine vision.

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Development Resources

Video: Tour NI LabWindows/CVI 8.5 New Features
Explore new features in LabWindows/CVI 8.5, including full control over thread management, optimized multithreaded libraries and drivers, and thread-safe analysis functions.
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Measuring Strain with Strain Gages
Examine the concepts and techniques involved in measuring strain with strain gages, including signal conditioning for strain gages and data acquisition (DAQ) systems for strain gage measurements.
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Try LabVIEW Online
Evaluate LabVIEW without downloading or installing software. You get three hours of access to LabVIEW, a guided tutorial with hands-on exercises, and additional resources and code samples.
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Example VI: Magic Wand Tool
This example shows how to create an image mask by extracting a region surrounding a reference pixel and using a tolerance of intensity variations based on this reference pixel.
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E-kit: Real-Time Programming in C
Learn how to create, debug, and deploy ANSI C real-time and embedded applications that run on single- or dual-core targets.
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New Products and Technologies

LabVIEW Tools Network Offers More Than 400 Tools
The LabVIEW Tools Network, an online portal that delivers the industry’s largest source of add-on and connectivity products for LabVIEW, has expanded by more than 100 new tools.
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New Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Module for PXI Express
The NI PXIe-8234 module is the first NI product to provide high-speed connectivity for NI vision products on the PXI Express platform.
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NI, Emona Announce New Plug-In Module for NI ELVIS
With a new telecommunications board for the NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS), students can visualize telecommunications concepts in a hands-on learning environment.
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New USB-Controlled RMS RF Power Meter
The first NI USB-controlled true RMS RF power meter provides a highly flexible solution for automated test, measurement and monitoring applications in a small footprint.
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Webcasts and Events

Optimizing LabVIEW FPGA Applications for Space and Speed
Explore ways to recognize FPGA application inefficiencies and guidelines to follow when writing or reviewing applications.
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Understanding Key RF Switch Specifications
Learn how switch specifications are determined and what causes nonideal characteristics.
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Designing Applications with the LabVIEW Statechart Module
See how the LabVIEW Statechart Module helps you create advanced state machines that include hierarchy and concurrency to design event-based tasks such as user interfaces.
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Implementing PID Control in LabVIEW
Learn how to perform PID control with NI Compact FieldPoint hardware and LabVIEW software.
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Find Events in Your Area
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Top 5 Green Engineering Case Studies 
1. High-Speed Control of Hydraulic Die-Casting Machine »
2. Testing Evacuated Tube Solar Collectors »
3. Creating an Integrated Spectral Water Analysis Systemit »
4. Developing a Cost-Effective Plastic Sorting System »
5. DOE Automates Electrospark Deposition Program with LabVIEW »
NI in the Press
Tools Open FPGAs to Expand into New Domains »
The Power of CoSimulation »
Sensor-Based System Could Help Sufferers of ALS, Cerebral Palsy »
Multicore Processor Support One of Many Enhancements in NI LabVIEW 8.5 »

Community News
Community Buzz -- Cool LabVIEW 8.5 Feature
Learn from product expert Darren Nattinger about one of the coolest new features in LabVIEW 8.5: how connector pane terminals default to "required."
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