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January 24, 2012
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3 Simple Object-Oriented Design Patterns in LabVIEW   Hack Your Car With NI CAN Interfaces and LabVIEW
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Learn to identify where and how to use some of the most common patterns in your applications and how they're implemented in NI LabVIEW software.

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  Learn the history of why you can hack your car, the type of information you can get, and how to do it in your free time with an NI controller area network (CAN) interface.

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Tech Tips

Video: How NI Is Monitoring Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing needs a system that monitors all the equipment required to extract oil and gas from challenging environments. LIME Instruments used a single platform with LabVIEW and NI CompactRIO to configure the system with fewer resources.
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5 Questions to Ask When Choosing Your DAQ Device 
With so many data acquisition devices to choose from, it can be difficult to select the right one for your application. Ask yourself these five questions when selecting your hardware.
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Tutorial: A Peer-to-Peer FFT Coprocessor
Learn how to build a fast Fourier transform (FFT) coprocessing engine for NI FlexRIO that is configured to work with NI peer-to-peer data streaming technology.
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Examples and Best Practices for LabVIEW Web Services 
Learn how to design and implement efficient and extensible LabVIEW applications that provide web services for networked clients.
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Community Highlights

The Quest for the Higgs Boson at CERN
NI big physics market development manager Arun Veeramani stopped by the Sweet Apps blog to discuss the exciting things happening on the particle physics front in 2012. 
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Example Code: Infinite Monkeys on Infinite Typewriters
See how LabVIEW is used to take a look at the infinite monkey theorem and the incredible power of infinity.
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Help Oregon State University Make LabVIEW Better
OSU thinks that if LabVIEW detects code that could be written more efficiently, it should help you improve it—and they need your code examples to advance their research project.
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New LabVIEW Drivers for Low-Cost “Mind-Reading” Headsets
Download these drivers to use with new low-cost electroencephalography (EEG) headsets perfect for teaching basic EEG concepts, creating biofeedback applications in LabVIEW, or playing around with signal processing techniques.
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What's New

Validating the NASA Orion Spacecraft Design
NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers needed three test systems for performing structural tests on their Orion multipurpose crew vehicle, and they needed the systems in six months.
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NI Honored by FORTUNE for 13th Consecutive Year Among 100 Best Companies to Work For
NI was named one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For for the 13th consecutive year! This year, FORTUNE named NI as number 45 on their list, up from 79 last year.
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Webcast: What Is NI Measurement Studio?
It helps reduce test and measurement application development time in .NET languages through object-oriented analysis libraries, scientific UI controls for Windows and web applications, hardware interface wizards, and .NET and Visual C++ classes.
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Top 5 Downloaded LabVIEW Tools in 2011

  1. VI Package Manager »




2. LabVIEW Interface for Arduino Toolkit »




3. OpenG Libraries »




4. MGI Library »




5. SmartSQLVIEW for SQLite »



Events and Training

Register for NIWeek 2012 »    
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We Asked, You Answered!
We recently asked what you're engineering in 2012. Community user Robert Cole says he's kicking 2012 off with robots, machine vision, and welding lasers.
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NI in the Press

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