How to Create a Simple Circuit with mySTEM Project Board

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How to Create a Simple Circuit with mySTEM ™ Project Board

If you are interested in controls education or electrical engineering, you’ll find the mySTEM™ Project Board is a useful attachment for your NI myDAQ. I won’t go into the technical specifications of the hardware, but if you’re curious, you can find that information on the mySTEM product page. Use the project board to plug into your National Instruments myDAQ to wire circuits, … Read More

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Introduce Controls Education with NI myDAQ

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Introduce Controls Education with NI myDAQ & mySTEM Project Board

As you are probably aware, the NI myDAQ is a portable measurement and instrumentation device. It is ideal for student learning and can easily be used in a classroom setting. It is an affordable, portable and durable data acquisition device that allows students to analyze and measure live signals. Combined with LabVIEW it can be used to replicate expensive instrumentation such … Read More

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Use Your Student Discount to Make Your Budget Go Further

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Money-Saving Tip: Use Your Student Discount to Make Your Budget Go Further

It’s almost that time again. Winter recess is coming to a close and the spring semester will be starting up soon. Yes, it is time to get back to the grindstone; reading, studying, and assignments. But all is not lost, don’t forget spring semester also means that you can start planning your spring break! You just need to start saving … Read More

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National Instruments lists mySTEM Project Board for NI myDAQ

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We’ve got some exciting news to share here at Studica. Recently, Studica’s mySTEM™ Project Board has been listed on National Instruments’ NI miniSystems and Accessories for NI myDAQ. mySTEM goes hand in hand with myDAQ and LabVIEW as ideals tools in teaching and learning about science, technology, engineering and math. The mySTEM Project Board includes curriculum that can be used … Read More

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STEM in Action: Robotics and Controls Hardware Course

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Earlier this summer, Information Communications Technology (ICT) Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) students from Heart Lake Secondary School attended a Robotics and Controls Hardware Interfacing Course at Studica Limited in Mississauga, Ontario. Studica Limited provided the students with fishertechnik, National Instruments myDAQ and mySTEM hardware products. The students were then asked to program and control a system of components and … Read More

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NI Help: Solving LabVIEW Device Identifier is Invalid Error

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Ever since Studica started offering National Instruments’LabVIEW software, there has been one error that seems fairly common but has a very simple fix. When a user runs a lab, they will be presented with an error window that says something along the lines of “Error – 200220 occurred at DAQmx Create Channel (AI-Voltage-Basic).vi:2. Underneath this error, there’s a section that … Read More

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A Look at the National Instruments myRIO

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I recently had the opportunity to visit the National Instruments headquarters in Austin, Texas.  While I was there, I was shown a demonstration of their myRIO Data Acquisition device. The myRIO basically takes the NI myDAQ to the next level. It has a built-in processor as well as its own memory so it can meet the demands of higher-end projects.  … Read More

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Get more from LabVIEW & myDAQ using new mySTEM™ Board miniSystem

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Did you know you can now turn an ordinary myDAQ with LabVIEW into a programmable action controller? We sat down with esteemed STEM educator, Tom White, to talk about the new mySTEM Board miniSystem which he designed to do just that. This is how he explains the new miniSystem for myDAQ, why it was created and how it can help teach … Read More

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