Is Optical Sensing Right for You?

	November 2, 2010
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Virtual User Group: Best Practices for Software Development

Is Optical Sensing Right for You? Moore's Law for Automated Test

Optical sensing is ideal for applications in which conventional electrical sensors are ineffective or tough to use due to long distances or difficult environmental conditions.

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Share: Through software-defined, modular instrumentation, test engineers can apply Moore's Law and see improvements of 10X or more in size, cost, and power reductions for their automated test systems.

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Tech Tips

Boost Your PLC System: Wireless Monitoring
Learn how to add a wireless measurement and monitoring system that reduces system costs and increases flexibility with the NI wireless sensor network platform.
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Webcast: Improving Everyday Life Through Robotic Systems With NI LabVIEW Robotics
LabVIEW Robotics provides a standard hardware and software platform for designing your robotic control system. See how the software brings multiple disciplines together to create robots that sense, think, and act.
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Webcast: Taking Your First Measurement With the NI PXIe-5630 Vector Network Analyzer
See how to use the industry's first PXI vector network analyzer (VNA), the NI PXIe-5630, to make measurements needed to characterize RF components such as impedance and forward S-parameters.
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What Does It Mean To Be "Synchronized"?
Synchronization, or the correlation between time and data acquisition, is one of the most important aspects of a sensor measurement system. Explore synchronization concepts and how you can take advantage of them.
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Community Highlights

CompactRIO Controls a Brain Tumor-Attacking Robot
Discover how haptic devices, controlled by the CompactRIO programmable automation controller (PAC), are treating brain tumors and decreasing neurosurgery patient trauma and postoperational recovery time.
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Example Code: NI Tunes Playlist Shuffler
Download this LabVIEW VI that demonstrates the easiest way to shuffle an array of strings or, in this case, an array of strings representing a musical playlist.
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Sweet Apps: Meet Crew Cutter, the Autonomous Lawnmower
Students at Case Western Reserve University built an autonomous lawnmower, called "Crew Cutter," using LabVIEW, CompactRIO, and an NI Embedded Vision System for the NI Student Design Showcase Competition.
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UI Interest Group: Windmill User Interface Example
Learn how you can customize your front panel with animation of a rotating windmill using recoloring graphs, panel backgrounds, and PowerPoint decorations in LabVIEW.
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What's New

NI Adds LTE Automated Test Capabilities to PXI RF Test Portfolio
Find out how NI Long Term Evolution (LTE) will provide a fast, flexible, and accurate solution for engineers developing test systems for LTE products.
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Walk This Way: Gait Analysis With LabVIEW
Learn how researchers at Oxford Brookes University used LabVIEW software to create a low cost and more efficient way for clinicians to perform gait analysis.
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Texas Instruments Decreases Test Cycle Time by Several Weeks With NI Hardware and Software
Texas Instruments used NI TestStand and LabVIEW to convert a lengthy manual test process into an automated test cycle, reducing the regression test cycle from weeks to days and increasing reliability, repeatability, and maintainability.
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New LabVIEW FPGA IPNet Increases IP Availability for Digital Design Engineers
Check out the new version of LabVIEW FPGA IPNet, an online resource that helps engineers browse, download, and share the latest IP for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design applications.
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Top 5 Robotics Case Studies

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2. An Integrated Vision and Robotics Packaging Line for Cosmetics »

3. A Semiautonomous Vehicle Driven by the Visually Impaired »

4. Designing a Robotic Device to Study Flying Insects »

5. Autonomous Driving in the DARPA Urban Challenge »

Events and Training
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