Ever-increasing numbers of technologies are converging into the simplest of devices, technologies that expand these devices beyond their main function. A good example is Apple’s iPhone, which combines ...

At an exclusive event at the NIWeek conference, National Instrumentshanded out the 2009 Graphical System Design Achievement Awards,sponsored by TechInsights. A judgingcommittee of 30 technical experts ...

If you’re using a Linux desktop, the graphical user interface isn’t an integral part of the system, it’s additional software that’s loaded as required. The desktop and everything that goes with it is ...

Aeroponics is the growing of plants using air or mist without soil. It is an alternative method of cultivation not affected by such environmental phenomena such as drought or excess water that ...

As the demand for higher-power and higher-precision instrumentation grows, the size requirements for these devices continue to shrink and the design complexity increases. The PCI eXtensions for ...

This article is part four of a five-part series in which I discuss various aspects and functions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In my previous article I demonstrated how to install ...

National Instruments this week rolled out the 20th anniversary edition of its flagship LabView platform. With the NI LabView Toolkit for Lego Mindstorms NXT, LabView users can create and download ...