Tools for Expanding NI myDAQ Capabilities

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Tools for Expanding NI myDAQ Capabilities

The NI myDAQ is a great tool for hands-on engineering projects and experimentation. You can use it to prototype systems and test circuits anywhere, anytime. LabVIEW and Multisim software are available to greatly enhance the abilities of this device. NI LabVIEW is a powerful, graphical development environment that offers unrivaled integration with thousands of hardware devices and provides hundreds of … Read More

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Do More with NI myDAQ, myRIO & LabVIEW

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Do More with NI myDAQ, myRIO & LabVIEW

As you are probably aware, Studica offers a great variety of software, STEM education solutions, robotics, and technology products. We have also developed great partnerships with WorldSkills and FIRST. For over 30 years, our focus has been uniting technology with education. For instance, we offer National Instruments products for students and faculty with academic discounts and we also offer National Instruments … Read More

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Do More with your NI myDAQ Data Acquisition Device

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Do More with your NI myDAQ Data Acquitision Device

The NI myDAQ is a data acquisition device designed for students. As a tool for introducing engineering concepts and problem-solving, it allows hands-on experimentation. As it is a portable device, it allows for analyzing and measuring live signals in the classroom or wherever you may be. The myDAQ combines easy-to-use software-defined instruments and hardware that you can use as a function generator, … Read More

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Wiring an Electric Motor with the mySTEM for NI myDAQ

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How to Wire an Electric Motor with mySTEM Project Board for NI myDAQ

We’ve been working on a series of activities that explain how you can enhance the capabilities of the National Instruments myDAQ using the mySTEM Project Board. This week, we’ve got another exciting mySTEM Project Board project to share. This time around, Mark will walk you through how to wire a 12V DC motor to the mySTEM and control it using the … Read More

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Detecting Light Levels with the mySTEM for NI myDAQ

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Detecting Light Levels With the mySTEM for NI myDAQ

A couple of weeks ago, I did a basic breadboard LED project using a mySTEM connected to a myDAQ. We created a simple circuit. This week, we will create a light detector using the mySTEM Project Board for the NI myDAQ and a couple of sensors/circuits. You’ll have a laser emitter that you’ll use to hit a photoresistor, which will … Read More

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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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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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