LabVIEW: The Ultimate Toolbox

	December 20, 2011
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LabVIEW: The Ultimate Toolbox Faster Real-Time Mechanical Test

Just as it's hard to build a house with only one tool, it's also tough to meet a programming challenge using only one model of computation.

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Share: Keep pace with complex system validation by using real-time simulations that efficiently execute models and accurately connect to real systems using hardware I/O.

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Tech Tips

The Need for Control: A Study at CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collimation systems at CERN have strict reliability and availability requirements to ensure safe and uninterrupted LHC operation. These slides examine a comparative PXI and VME study.
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Plugging In–Without the Wires
LaserMotive is using NI products to control and aim high-energy lasers. They have demonstrated the ability to beam hundreds of watts of energy at a distance of up to 1 km, and over a kilowatt at shorter distances.
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Webcast: The Future of Condition Monitoring
Research organization The IMS Center has invested more than 10 years in research for prognostics and prediction techniques. This webcast describes where these ideas are used and their future in the marketplace.
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Cardiac Monitor Testing With a Biosignal Generator Library
See how you can use this biosignal generator library in LabVIEW to test medical heart rate monitors to ensure they pass the EC13 standard. You'll also get full documentation and automated report generation.
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Community Highlights

Example Code: Using LabVIEW to Animate Your 2D Images
By reading and sequencing image data together, you can use LabVIEW to create basic frame-based animations.
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Holiday Hacker: DIY Christmas Light Suit
See how this NI engineer used LabVIEW and Arduino to sequence a suit of wearable Christmas lights.
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Latest Coding Challenge Now Accepting Entries!
The winter 2011-2012 LabVIEW coding challenge is focused on intuitive user interface design and execution time. Join the group to learn more about the challenges and to submit your code.
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More Holiday Fun! Students Make Dancing Santa With NI myDAQ
Tasked with integrating multiple NI myDAQ units into a single project, Weber State University students created a unique project that combines NI tools, a Santa robot, and some stellar dance moves.
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What's New

Capturing Groundbreaking Tornado Phenomena
TWISTEX, featured in the Discovery Channel's “Storm Chasers,” uses LabVIEW and NI CompactDAQ to get inside a tornado to capture and analyze data that could be used to predict dangerous weather conditions and ultimately save lives.
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NI Cofounders Honored With Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship
This award recognizes executives who, in their business practices and personal actions, show a deep concern for the common good beyond the bottom line.
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NI Sponsors 2011 World Robot Olympiad
Last month, NI helped bring together students from all over the world by sponsoring the World Robot Olympiad. Held in Abu Dhabi, this year's event drew more than 1,500 teams from 35 countries.
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Top 5 Reasons to Access LabVIEW 101

1. Learn Basic Concepts »

2. Learn Basic Tasks »

3. Evaluate Your Understanding »

4. Get Your Questions Answered Fast »

5. Take a Cumulative Assessment »

Events and Training

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NI in the Press

Winning With Engineering »

Robot Gift Ideas »

AOC 2011 Wrap Up—48th Year of the Crow »

Graphical System Design Accelerates Development »

LabVIEW Tool of the Week

CalcExpress
Use CalcExpress, which is new on the LabVIEW Tools Network, to add textual scripts to your front panel. You can alter the scripts at run time, extend their functionality with user-defined functions implemented as VIs, and run multiple scripts simultaneously.
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