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 ...

The Arduino is an excellent first embedded development kit, provides a great introduction to electronics, and has the potential to get children into programming. [David] thinks throwing C at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nvidia has introduced a new graphical programming language that it hopes will revolutionize the way animators make films. Cg is a language to perform graphical instructions -- such as drawing, shading ...

To mark the 20th anniversary of LabVIEW, along comes LabVIEW 8.20 replete with object-oriented support. If the original LabVIEW is C, LabVIEW 8.20 is C++. It's a superset based upon the original ...

In the previous discussion, we started examining on design supports such as MATLAB and Simulink on ARM Cortex-M processor-based microcontrollers. In this installment, we will explore on LabVIEW™, a ...

When I was a kid, I learned to program BASIC on the Apple II. BIG MISTAKE. It set me up for a life of crime. Actually, it was a blast, but I never programmed anything more complicated than a couple ...