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:
Fischertechnik at Skills USA in Kansas City, June 21st-23rd 2011
Yes, once again fischertechnik will be on display at the big Skills USA Techspo and Career Fair. We’ll be showcasing all of the latest fischertechnik products, with many new models on display, including those from the just released “ROBO TX Automation Robots” set, as well as the about to be released “Dynamic” set (see below).
This year we will be joined at the booth by Laurenz Wohlfarth, the Sales Director at fischertechnik GmbH, who is flying in all the way from Germany just to answer your fischertechnik related questions, as well as our friends from National Instruments, who will be displaying both the NI myDAQ and the latest release of LabVIEW software. We’re all very eager to once again meet and speak with the students and teachers in attendance that use fischertechnik in their classrooms to explore engineering and other STEM related fields, and if past experience is any indication, we expect to learn as much from all of you as you learn from us. If you’re in attendance, please stop by and visit us at booth #372 and #373.
NI LabVIEW Software now compatible with the ROBO TX Controller
And speaking of National Instruments, one of the reasons the fine folks from NI will be attending SkillsUSA with fischertechnik is to present the latest release of LabVIEW software, which is now compatible with the fischertechnik ROBO TX Controller! As long time fischertechnik users will remember, LabVIEW could be used with previous versions of the fischertechnik controller, such as the old ROBO Interface, but this is the first release of LabVIEW to make use of the power and capability of the new ROBO TX system. For those of you who are not yet familiar with LabVIEW, it is a graphical programming environment used by millions of engineers and scientists, and in countless schools all over the globe to develop sophisticated measurements, as well as to test, and control systems using intuitive graphical icons and wires that resemble a flowchart. It offers unrivaled integration with thousands of hardware devices and provides hundreds of built-in libraries for advanced analysis and data visualization – all for creating virtual instrumentation. The LabVIEW platform is scalable across multiple targets and OSs, and, since its introduction in 1986, it has become an industry leader.
Author: Lance Zurek
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