*What is the NI Software Technology Preview Watch this space over the coming weeks/months as I guide you through getting started with the LINX toolkit and LabVIEW 2019. This opens up a whole load of opportunities so in celebration of this announcement, I will be making a series of blog posts about using the Raspberry Pi with LabVIEW.
This means you can write and deploy LabVIEW code to a Raspberry Pi for commercial applications. Raspberry Pi & LabVIEWĪs a professional/full-time user of LabVIEW, one of the most interesting developments in the announcement is that the non-commercial restriction of the LINX Toolkit for the Raspberry Pi is being removed. With LabVIEW Community Edition and the LINX Toolkit, you’ll be able to tinker with LabVIEW and a Raspberry Pi just as you would with Python. I think this is fantastic news and it was a great honour that National Instruments chose a community event like GDevCon to announce it because it shows their commitment to the community and growing G/LabVIEW adoption in a world where free languages and tools (looking at you, Python!) are seeing massive growth. I expect NI to be publishing/sharing more information about this announcement shortly.Įdit (18/09/19): There is an official NI blog post with more details here.
It is identical to LabVIEW Professional – you’ll be able to build and deploy executables and there’s no watermark but it is for non-commercial/non-academic use only.The free LabVIEW Community Edition will launch next year alongside LabVIEW 2020 (Spring?).Here’s my summary of the announcement (based on information from NI posted here): Now onto why you are really here – the free LabVIEW Community Edition.
It was great to see so many people there…especially for NI’s big announcement of the event: Free LabVIEW – LabVIEW Community Edition Also a big thanks to the sponsors who made the event possible. GDevCon#2 at the Birmingham Repertory TheatreĪ big thanks to everyone that attended and stayed awake during my presentation. Sam Sharp presenting Efficient Working with Databases In the mean-time, here are a few photos from GDevCon#2 and my presentation:
I’m not going to do a full summary/wrap-up post as others have already done a great job of summarising the event.Īs always it was a pleasure to be involved in the event – not only as one of the organisers but also presenting on a framework/tool for databases with LabVIEW (I will be writing/posting more on that subject soon™ – I promise!). I have been busy catching up with life, the universe and everything (house move, work stuff, releasing V2.0 of my WebSockets library and a wedding!) post GDevCon#2. You will be able to download and use LabVIEW™ for FREE!īefore I go into further detail about the LabVIEW Community Edition, I did want to say someting about GDevCon#2 so… Post GDevCon#2 blues… One of the most newsworthy aspects of GDevCon#2 was a very special announcement from National Instruments that they would be releasing the LabVIEW Community Edition – a free version of LabVIEW™ Professional for non-commercial use.