Smartphones and Tablets: Cool Toys or Engineering Tools?

July 5, 2011 Your Source for Measurement and Automation News, Events, and Developer Resources ni.com/contact

In This Issue Need Help With Instrument Control Fundamentals?  Sweet Apps: Is It Bach? or a 'Bot? Severe-Storms Researcher to Deliver NIWeek Keynote  Get Certified at NIWeek  Advanced NI LabVIEW Object-Oriented Design Patterns Smartphones and Tablets: Cool Toys or Engineering Tools?   Evolving Wireless Standards Bring Test Challenges   Smartphones and tablets are growing in popularity and changing the way we live. While the extreme portability and web connectivity make them exciting recreational devices, these features also present interesting use cases for measurement and control applications.Read article » Share:          Testing next-generation wireless devices requires difficult measurements. In the midst of those test challenges, the evolution of new standards over the next two to three years will accelerate an industry shift toward modular, software-defined instrumentation. Explore the challenges » Share:      Tech Tips  Need Help With Instrument Control Fundamentals?  As part of the Instrument Control Fundamentals Series, this set of tutorials helps you learn about a specific common instrument control topic through theory explanations and practical examples.  Read more »  Energy Harvesting for NI Wireless Sensor Networks  Take advantage of solar and vibration energy harvesting to indefinitely power your NI wireless sensor network measurement nodes for long-term monitoring applications.  Read tutorial »  Choosing the Right Modular Instruments  Struggling with how to select the right instruments for your application? Gain an understanding of basic instrument specifications such as bandwidth, sampling rate, resolution, and accuracy.  Start choosing »  The One-Stop Shop for RF and Communications Resources  Get tips for developing an advanced RF application, researching different RF test platforms, and information about RF and communications fundamentals.  Read more »  Community Highlights Sweet Apps: Is It Bach? or a 'Bot?With the help of NI products, researchers at UCSI University in Malaysia have developed a single robotic hand that can play the piano. Curious about how they built the mechanical maestro?  Read more » Example Code: Move Cursor to the End of Text This simple subVI sets the cursor at the end of the text in a string control. Download code » Sweet Apps: How DIAdem Can Help You Train for Your Next Marathon See how NI DIAdem helped this NI engineer and marathon runner quickly locate, load, visualize, analyze, and report speed, elevation, and terrain data that he acquired during his runs. Start training » Example Code: Control LabVIEW From the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch Download this VI that can send and receive string and 32-bit float data from an iOS app called "Touch OSC" using the Open Sound Control protocol over UDP. Download code » What's New Severe-Storms Researcher to Deliver NIWeek KeynoteGet ready to be blown away, NIWeek attendees. This year’s closing keynote address will be delivered by Tim Samaras, acclaimed severe-storms researcher and costar of the adrenaline-pumping Discovery Channel show Storm Chasers. Read more » NI Introduces Industry’s Highest Throughput PXI Frame GrabberNI has announced the NI PXIe-1435 high-performance Camera Link frame grabber, which you can use to integrate high-speed and high-resolution imaging into your PXI systems. Learn more » Hand Tracking Motion System Transforms Movement Into Data Hand acquisition technology is widely applied in fields such as virtual reality, medicine, and musical performance. Read how engineers used LabVIEW to create a glove-based hand motion tracking system that can “read” hand motion. Read more » Top 5 Reasons to Attend NIWeek  1. More Than 250 Technical Sessions » 2. Five Technical Summits » 3. Training and Certification Exams » 4. Product Demonstrations » 5. More Than 200 Exhibiting Companies » Events and Training Get Certified at NIWeek » Advanced LabVIEW Object-Oriented Design Patterns » New Course: Using LabVIEW for Test and Automation in Regulated Markets » Register for NIWeek 2011 » Find Events in Your Area » Question of the MonthWho do YOU think should win? Vote now for your favorite graphical system design application. The winner will be announced at NIWeek 2011.Answer now »   NI in the Press  Automation Team: What Makes a Leader? » Mechanical Device Assists Heart Function Performance » Dr. James Truchard on New Products and Acquisitions at National Instruments » Using Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation to Create Better Cars »   Featured LabVIEW Add-On LabVIEW Interface for ArduinoEasily access Arduino DIO, AI, PWM, I2C, and SPI from LabVIEW with the LabVIEW Interface for Arduino Toolkit. Communicate with the Arduino over USB, serial, Bluetooth, or Xbee link.Download evaluation » Find Your Local Sales Contact Find LabVIEW on...

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