Why Engineers Should Care about Social Media

	July 6, 2010
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Sweet Apps: Monster Chess with LabVIEW and LEGO^®

User Group: Managing and Reporting Measurement Data

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Social media is not just about socializing and status updates. Explore the top five reasons why you should care about social media.

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Tech Tips

Getting Started with NI Products
Follow these steps to install, set up, and configure your NI data acquisition (DAQ), NI CompactRIO, GPIB, or instrument control hardware and learn the basics of LabVIEW software.
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Boost Your PLC System: Advanced Analysis and Control
Advanced control systems require additional analysis through signal processing and advanced decision making. Examine different approaches for signal processing and advanced control for programmable logic controller (PLC)-based systems.
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3D Imaging Techniques
Watch as National Instruments Alliance Partner Cyth Systems teaches you when and how to implement imaging techniques including bifocal acquisition, laser-based triangulation, and coded pattern projection.
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Top 10 Reasons to Use LabVIEW for Automating Test and Validation Systems
Explore 10 reasons why you should be using LabVIEW for your automated test and validation applications.
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Community Highlights

Example Code: Filtering Vuvuzela Noise with LabVIEW
Don't let the noise from the vuvuzela horns ruin your World Cup experience. Download this code to drown out the noise with audio filters, equalizers, and LabVIEW.
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Sweet Apps: Monster Chess with LabVIEW and LEGO
What do you get with 100,000 LEGO pieces, LEGO MINDSTORMS^® NXT, and LabVIEW? A monster-sized army of fully autonomous robot chess pieces.
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Eyes on VIs: LabVIEW Boolean Control with Labeled States
Learn how to customize labeled states for your Boolean subVIs in LabVIEW.
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Robot Recipe: NIRo
Build a small, unmanned, ground reconfigurable I/O (RIO) robot cost-effectively using off-the-shelf components.
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What's New

SolRayo Develops an Energy Storage Device Using LabVIEW and Modular Instruments
Find out how SolRayo uses NI products to meet renewable energy challenges with a user-friendly, software-powered potentiostat test system.
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Military and Aerospace Webcast Series
Engineers face many challenges in software, electronic, and mechanical design; complex testing requirements; and pressure on development and life-cycle costs. Learn new approaches to quickly prototype your designs, improve your component and systems testing, and ensure system uptime to meet these challenges.
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NI Adds New High-Performance Camera Link Frame Grabber to Vision Platform
NI recently introduced the NI PCIe-1433, a high-performance image acquisition module for machine vision and scientific imaging applications that require high data throughput and specialty line-scan sensors.
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Top Five Community-Submitted LabVIEW Ideas

1. Reinitialize Probes »

2. Case-Insensitive Comparison Mode for String Equality Comparison »

3. Replacing a Boolean Operator with a Compound Arithmetic Node Should Not Change the Operator »

4. NI Developer Suite Release Names Should Include Software Year and Service Pack »

5. Enable Undo/Redo in the VI Properties >> Documentation Window »

Events and Training
LabVIEW Virtual User Group: Managing and Reporting Your Measurement Data »

Webcast: Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) Exam Preparation »

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NI in the Press
The Marriage of Virtual Prototyping and Mechatronics »

Vuvuzela Filter Strips Droning Horns from World Cup Broadcasts »

Use a Model-Based Design Test Process for Your Smart Devices »

User-Configurable FPGA Modules Boost PXI-System Versatility »

LabVIEW Tool of the Month
The CURE Pattern ID Toolkit offers Virtual Instrument Library (VIL) software for the LabVIEW development environment. You can acquire data in a manner you are familiar with, preprocess it, extract features, and forward these features to the CURE VIL for pattern learning and identification.
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