When you want to quickly pull together a combination of media and user interaction, looking to some building blocks for the heavy lifting can be a lifesaver. That’s the idea behind Max, a graphical ...

The latest learn-to-code kit passing around a digital begging bowl to raise crowdfunds to make its concept fly is called FlowPaw. This education-focused electronics board takes inspiration from the ...

Embedded systems are becoming more common as engineers throughout many industries are placing more and more intelligence onto devices. You can find embedded processors in objects such as shoes, phones ...

National Instruments recently announced an embedded-development module for its popular LabView software that extends graphical programming to any 32-bit embedded processor (Picture). With the module, ...

There is a long history of Visual or Graphical Programming Languages, and most of them make more sense than the name of Microsoft’s Visual Basic, C#, and Visual Studio IDE. Some people don’t like to ...

Analyzing software metrics is an important facet to predicting quality in test system software as it helps to reduce complexity. Metrics analysis provides a quantitative assessment of how well the ...

Jeff Kodosky, co-founder and business and technology fellow at National Instruments, was an architect of the LabView graphical programming language. On visit to the NIDays technology conference in ...

I've always been a fan of pot pie. Why have a chicken breast, a side of mixed vegetables, and pie for dessert when you can just cram them all into one neat little package? Besides, if I eat pot pie ...

Programming can be more than just a chore. For one manufacturer of tobacco products, it was a weight—one that was helping to sink a complex automation project. The machine builder that the company had ...

Though PLC (programmable logic controller) programming languages may not receive the attention that general computing programming languages, such as JavaScript, C#, or Python do, they remain critical ...