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Links to Useful LabVIEW Sites
Some of the most useful LabVIEW-related
sites that I have found are:
National Instruments - the makers of LabVIEW
National Instruments Alliance Program - a list of companies that can help with LabVIEW projects
National Instruments Developers' Zone - an NI sponsored forum rich with LabVIEW and Daq-related resources, articles, and example programs
LabVIEW Zone - a somewhat newer NI forum more specifically aimed at LabVIEW
Two other invaluable resources are the Info-LabVIEW e-mail list and the LabVIEW newsgroup. The Info-LabVIEW e-mail list has proven incredibly useful for me. It has numerous active participants who are LabVIEW experts and are glad to share their ideas. The Advanced Search page gives you access to years of useful posts. The newsgroup can be accessed from NI's site (look for Discussion Forums in the Technical Support section), through web interfaces such as GoogleGroups, or through a standard newsgroup server.
National Instruments - the makers of LabVIEW
National Instruments Alliance Program - a list of companies that can help with LabVIEW projects
National Instruments Developers' Zone - an NI sponsored forum rich with LabVIEW and Daq-related resources, articles, and example programs
LabVIEW Zone - a somewhat newer NI forum more specifically aimed at LabVIEW
Two other invaluable resources are the Info-LabVIEW e-mail list and the LabVIEW newsgroup. The Info-LabVIEW e-mail list has proven incredibly useful for me. It has numerous active participants who are LabVIEW experts and are glad to share their ideas. The Advanced Search page gives you access to years of useful posts. The newsgroup can be accessed from NI's site (look for Discussion Forums in the Technical Support section), through web interfaces such as GoogleGroups, or through a standard newsgroup server.
Another interesting
LabVIEW site is VIBots. This
site hosts a
competition in which individuals develop "combat tank" VIs and submit
them to be run against each other, with the smartest tanks
winning. Check it out for a fun diversion, and good luck writing
your own tanks.
Other Links
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combat robots (battlebots). In particular, BotLabs is creating
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David Thomson is also a Senior Physicist at Lucid Dimensions, a research and development firm in Boulder, Colorado that is developing revolutionary imaging and sensing technologies.
Useful Software
I have found numerous
open-source
software programs to be reliable and useful in my consulting
business. Some of them are:
Mozilla - This is the open-source basis for what Netscape has become. It seems to be evolving and improving quickly.
Openoffice.org - This is the open-source basis on which Sun's StarOffice is built. It is a full-featured office suite which can import and export Word, Excel, and PowerPoint compatible files. I have found it to be useable but a bit buggy.
TightVNC - This is an enhanced version of VNC, or Virtual Network Computing, which is a cross-platform program that allows one computer to control another over the network.
OpenG - The LabVIEW community has its own open-source effort under way. OpenG hosts numerous LabVIEW development projects available for anyone to use.
Another program I have found useful is IrfanView, a versatile graphics viewing and editing program. Although IrfanView is not open-source, it is free for personal use and requires a very modest fee for commercial use.
Mozilla - This is the open-source basis for what Netscape has become. It seems to be evolving and improving quickly.
Openoffice.org - This is the open-source basis on which Sun's StarOffice is built. It is a full-featured office suite which can import and export Word, Excel, and PowerPoint compatible files. I have found it to be useable but a bit buggy.
TightVNC - This is an enhanced version of VNC, or Virtual Network Computing, which is a cross-platform program that allows one computer to control another over the network.
OpenG - The LabVIEW community has its own open-source effort under way. OpenG hosts numerous LabVIEW development projects available for anyone to use.
Another program I have found useful is IrfanView, a versatile graphics viewing and editing program. Although IrfanView is not open-source, it is free for personal use and requires a very modest fee for commercial use.
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