A Request for National Instruments
There are really cool things that the community can do for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, now that LEGO has released the Mindstorms SDK.One thing I am personally looking forward to, is making custom NXT-G bricks. There are all sorts of bricks that would make programming with NXT-G a lot simpler. But to make new bricks, I understand one needs LabVIEW from National Instruments.
LabVIEW is a really expensive piece of software, but there is a student version that is very reasonably priced. So my plea to National Instruments is this. When you release the LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, could you please:
- Allow residential (non-academic, non-commercial) users to buy the Student Edition;
- Make sure that it is possible to create custom bricks using the Student Edition (i.e. it is not crippled on the functionality relevant to LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT).
posted by Filip @ Friday, September 01, 2006
2 Comments:
There are two Student Edition Products, which one do you think is better?
If the toolkit is unnecessary for NXT, I think the textbook bundle edition is better for people never used labview before.
I don't know, but I'm hoping National Instruments will tell us when they release their SDK.
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