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4 Things Your Sensors Can't Do   Solving the Plastic Problem
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Traditional electrical sensors simply can't handle certain environments, but you can overcome these challenges for your measurement application.

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  From Styrofoam cups to life-saving medical equipment, plastic is everywhere, making research into biodegradable plastics a crucial study. 

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Tech Tips 

Now, Not Later—Choose the Right Application Software 
The last thing you want to do is rewrite all of your code using new application software simply because your old code wasn't scalable. Ask yourself these five questions to select the right software tool for your measurement system.
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A Simple Approach to Graphical and Textual Numerical Simulation
This tutorial uses an RC circuit example to show an approach to graphical and textual numerical simulation that works well with linear and nonlinear systems.
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Faster Instrument Control Development With LabVIEW Wizards and Examples
Using NI LabVIEW software instrument drivers, examples, wizards, and Express VIs helps you reduce repetitive, time-consuming tasks so you can focus on developing the unique parts of your application.
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Speed Up Structural Test Times With SC Express
Testing structures such as airplanes, trains, military vehicles, and civil structures is critical to ensure their safety and performance, but can often present barriers to production. 
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Community Highlights

Would You Swallow a Sensor?
Check out this Sweet App about smart pills that can monitor which medications you have taken, when you took them, and which manufacturer produced them. 
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Hold On, This Smart House Just Needs to Send a Quick Text
Students from the Islamic University of Gaza created a smart house that uses LabVIEW for everything from motion-activated lights to sending text messages in case of emergency.
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Example Code: Basic Electronic Keyboard
This example generates sounds over two octaves via onscreen keys or the computer keyboard and demonstrates some great basic programming techniques in LabVIEW.
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Student Design Projects = Trips to NIWeek and Cash Prizes
NI wants to see how students are incorporating LabVIEW software into their design projects. Cash prizes and trips to NIWeek 2012 are on the line. Deadline for submissions is June 10.
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What's New

NI Establishes Electronic Design Specialty Alliance Partners
National Instruments recently announced the Electronic Design Specialty for NI Alliance Partner Network members with specialized skills in custom electronics.
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Expand Your LabVIEW Skills to FPGA-Based Applications
NI is now offering a low-cost evaluation kit to show you the benefits of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based design using reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware with LabVIEW.
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4 New NI Single-Board RIO Embedded Devices Announced at Embedded World
The new devices have off-the-shelf FPGA and real-time processor technology and maintain the custom I/O often required for high-volume deployments through the option of a RIO Mezzanine Card connector.
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Top 5 LabVIEW Interface for Arduino Resources

  1. Visit the Community »

2. Watch a Video Overview »

3. Purchase the Bundle »

4. Check Out a Third-Party Demo »

5. See a Cool Application »

Events and Training

Register for NIWeek 2012 »    
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Question of the Month

Show us your workspace! Everyone sets up shop a little differently, so what does it look like where you get your best engineering done?
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NI in the Press

NI Offers Complete Solution to Optimize Circuit Performance »
Innovation Culture Helps NI Achieve Record Revenue »
Paper Forever, But Less of It »
Welcome to Everyday Measurements »

LabVIEW Tool of the Week

INERTIA 
New on the LabVIEW Tools Network, INERTIA by Wineman Technology is an add-on for NI VeriStand designed to quickly and efficiently implement real-time control systems for physical testing and validation applications.
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