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 ...

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 ...

There is a long history of Visual or Graphical Programming Languages, and most of them make more sense than the name of Microsoft’s Visual Basic, C#, and Visual Studio IDE. Some people don’t like to ...

Sometimes you don't just want to play the latest games, you want to create them as well. Such is the case with David, who recently wrote us with the following question: I'm searching for a laptop for ...

DASYLab 10 software comes with a new graphical display module, named Diagram, which may be configured as an enhanced y/t, x/y, or data chart recorder. It supports multiple y-axes and lets the user ...

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 ...

Mathworks's Simulink Design Verifier 2.0 (Fig. 1) incorporates static code analysis technology that is obtained when it acquired Polyspace Technologies. The Polyspace code verifiers detect and prove ...

Play around with Lego Mindstorms NXT enough and at some point you'll inevitably get frustrated with NXT-G, its graphical programming language of "blocks" that you drag around and connect with "wires".