Instrument Control: Choosing the Right Bus for Your System

	June 5, 2012
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Instrument Control: Choosing the Right Bus for Your System Could Your Success Hinge on Knowing Your DAQ Level?

It's tough deciding which bus you should use to control your instrument. We ask four questions and examine the most common PC bus options to help you figure it out.

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Share: Before you begin a project, whether it's basic measurements or a complex system, you should determine the skills you need to make your solution a success.

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Large facilities and machines consume a lot of energy—part two of this eight-part series on embedded control and monitoring applications explores the opportunity to reduce cost through power quality.
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Wheelchair Control on the Tip of Your Tongue
Researchers at Georgia Tech created an intraoral system that makes it possible to navigate a wheelchair based on tongue placement.
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YouTube: PID-Controlled Quadcopter Using LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO
Applications engineers at the NI UK office used LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO to build a PID-controlled quadcopter.
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