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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The unquestioned success of the Raspberry Pi has swept the world. More than 2 million boards have been sold since its launch less than the two years ago, and dozens of startups have been formed just ...

Analyzing software metrics is an important facet to predicting quality in test system software as it helps to reduce complexity. Metrics analysis provides a quantitative assessment of how well the ...

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 ...

DSP development is challenging. DSP systems are increasingly complicated, development cycles are shrinking, and many developers lack DSP programming experience. All of this of this creates a need for ...

I looked at LabView more than a decade ago, and was very impressed, but I put it aside as test and measurement (T&M) was not at the top of my list of things to do. In the meantime, LabView has become ...

Though PLC (programmable logic controller) programming languages may not receive the attention that general computing programming languages, such as JavaScript, C#, or Python do, they remain critical ...

Basic Programming for PLCs provides an overview of the basic principles, structure, and instructions of PLC programming. Most PLC programs use instructions written in ladder logic, which is a ...

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