National Instruments Hardware and Software in Ontario’s Energy SHSM

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I was able to use hardware from the Fischertechnik Oeco Tech Renewable Energies Kit to construct the Solar Array, complete with DC Motor. The solar tracker is a part of this kit, and comes with graphical instructions for assembly and wiring. With this, I was able to add two Light Sensors and design a simple system for control using LabVIEW.

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The Big fischertechnik Summer 2011 Update

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Summer is a busy time for those of us in the fischertechnik division at Studica. There are a lot of exciting things happening in June and July, and I’d like to share a few of them with you.

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Waterloo Labs, K12Lab, and National Instruments

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National Instruments are the makers of the myDAQ and LabVIEW software and they have a sort of “think-tank” called Waterloo Labs. On their website, you will be able to watch videos of the crazy projects that they come up with. Fortunately for all of us, they also post videos that show and describe how they accomplished their incredibly fun and unique projects.

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The Infinity Project Technology Kit

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The Infinity Project Technology Kit is built around cutting-edge Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology developed by Texas Instruments and industry-standard software pioneered by National Instruments. Students utilize the kit to perform engineering design and experimentation on high-tech topics including the Internet, wireless communications, digital imaging, and music and audio processing.

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