You can develop applications in LabVIEW, entirely running on a web browser without the need for additional software. The LabVIEW NXG Web module helps users with little or no web development skills to create web applications. This approach by National Instruments aims to increase the user community and engage K-12 students to learn more about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Degree-granting institutions and online degree programs continue to use Academic Site License to acquire licenses for NI software.” He continued, “LabVIEW Student Edition and Academic Site License for Secondary Schools have been replaced with the LabVIEW Community and LabVIEW NXG Community.
“This is really for hobbyists, makers out there that want to work with LabVIEW for their own small projects, as long as they are not taking it really to commercial use cases,” said Daniel Parrot, product marketing manager at National Instruments.
This means you can write and distribute LabVIEW code on a Raspberry Pi for commercial applications (Figure 1).įigure 1: the new community of NI (Source: National Instruments) They include an updated version of the LINX toolkit to help engineering hobbyists interface and/or distribute LabVIEW applications to popular maker computing targets such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and BeagleBoards. LabVIEW Community editions offer the same features as the professional version of the popular systems engineering software. Visualization simplifies the integration of any supplier’s measurement hardware and allows complex logic representation on diagrams, development of data analysis algorithms, and design of custom user interfaces.