• Moving Beyond Microsoft Excel  
• Webcast: Motion Control Technologies for Robotics Design
• Sweet Apps: Homemade Nuclear Fusion 
• Put Your Nintendo Wii Nunchuk to the Test
• New and Updated Training Courses Available 

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Moving Beyond Microsoft Excel
We live in an era when companies need to do more with less by choosing the best tools to maximize efficiency and reduce costs. Learn how NI DIAdem can help you overcome the limitations of Microsoft Excel. 
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Webcast: Motion Control Technologies for Robotics Design
From autonomous vehicles to medical and service robots, all mechatronical systems require motion components to help robots perform individual tasks. Examine basic motion control concepts and more. 
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Webcast: Understanding a Software-Defined Test Architecture
Learn how to develop test systems faster and more cost-effectively through a software-defined test architecture using modular instruments.
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Introduction to Fiber Optic Sensing with Fiber Bragg Gratings
Fiber optic sensing has evolved from experimental research into broad use in field applications such as structural health monitoring. See how optical sensing can help you perform sensor measurements that were previously difficult, or even impossible.
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Community Highlights

Sweet Apps: Homemade Nuclear Fusion
Mark Suppes built his very own fusion reactor in the comfort of his workshop garage. See how he used NI tools to build an instrument that produces one of the most elusive alternative energy sources. 
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Put Your Nintendo Wii Nunchuk to the Test
See how NI employees created an intuitive Wii-like interface to fully automate the verification of the Bluetooth, accelerometer, rumble, speakers, infrared camera, and current draw of the Nintendo Wii remote controller using LabVIEW and NI TestStand.
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Custom Toolbars for LabVIEW VIs
Have you ever wanted to make a custom toolbar on a VI? The latest post from Eyes on VIs shows you how to use splitter bars and panes in LabVIEW to customize a small sample VI.
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Example Code: Home Energy Monitor
Download this LabVIEW VI to graphically view data from your home energy monitor.
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What's New

Boost Your Productivity with New Vision Software
Discover how you can succeed with your vision applications by taking advantage of new features in the NI Vision Development Module 2010 and LabVIEW 2010, including the new image shared variable for visualization and image logging and new image processing algorithms. 
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Students Can Do More with NI myDAQ
Listen to Dr. Tony Ambler, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, as he talks about using the new NI myDAQ portable data acquisition device to solve many of today’s problems in engineering education.
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Controlling an Echogen Power Systems Waste Heat Engine with NI Software and Hardware
Wineman Technology, winner of the Green Engineering Award at the 2010 Graphical System Design Achievment Awards, used LabVIEW and CompactRIO to control a waste heat engine.
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