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What Can Toyota Teach Us about Test?   Taking the Stress out of Strain Measurements
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Learn why testing, which ensures quality during product design and manufacturing, should be a strategic investment for your company.

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  These five fundamental concepts and considerations can save you time and resources as you plan, purchase, design, and develop your systems.

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Tech Tips

Five Tips to Reduce Measurement Noise
See how to move beyond common best practices to ensure better noise immunity. 
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Video: Building a PID Controller with Your Computer
Learn how to build a custom proportional integral derivative (PID) controller with a USB data acquisition device and LabVIEW. 
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Start Your Own Invention Lab with the RIO Platform
Check out these resource kits for green engineering, robotics, medical devices, and industrial machine design featuring evaluation hardware and software, tutorials, case studies, and webcasts.
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Webcast: Disruptive Technologies for Mechatronics Design
In this joint webcast with SolidWorks, see how you can use LabVIEW, the LabVIEW NI SoftMotion Module, and the SolidWorks 3D CAD design environment to create a digital model of a complete mechatronics system before building a physical prototype.
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Community Highlights

Example Code: LabVIEW 3D Space Explorer Game
This game showcases the object-oriented design capabilities within LabVIEW as well as advanced architectures, including the state machine and the producer-consumer loop. 
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Do Engineers Go to Parties?
See what the An Engineering Mind video blog has to say about engineers and social skills.
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Blog: Creating Quality UIs with LabVIEW
Explore these little-known LabVIEW features and techniques for creating usable and attractive user interfaces.
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Robot Recipe: Element
Learn how to build a robot named Element, a teleoperated reconnaissance vehicle intended for first-responder and search-and-rescue purposes.
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What's New

Measuring Fetal Heart Rates Accurately and Safely Using LabVIEW
See how engineers created this low-power optical fetal heart rate monitor that does not use ultrasound waves and poses no risk to the fetus. 
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New PXI Express Quad-Core Controller Featuring Intel® Core™ i7 Processor
The NI PXIe-8133 high-performance embedded controller, which features the quad-core Intel Core i7-820QM processor, is the first PXI Express quad-core controller in the industry.
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More Than 100 C Series Modules Available for Customized Applications
With more than 50 modules from NI, 50 third-party modules, and a multitude of chassis, there are numerous configuration options available to meet your various measurement and embedded control needs.
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Top Five On-Demand LabVIEW Virtual User Groups
1. LabVIEW Scripting: A Powerful New Tool for Advanced Developers »
2. Tips and Tricks to Increase LabVIEW Performance and Speed »
3. New Features in LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming »
4. Advanced Object-Oriented Programming »
5. Software Engineering Practices for LabVIEW »

Events and Training
Optimize Your Code with New LabVIEW Performance Course »
New Energy Technology Technical Summit at NIWeek 2010 »
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NI in the Press 
Wired GeekDad: An Engineering Mind at the FIRST World Championships »
Remote Control with an iPhone »
How Far off Are Real "Superhero" Powers? »

Handling the Top Five Design Challenges »

 

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