LabVIEW for LEGO® MINDSTORMS NXT

National Instruments, the Texas-based manufacturer of the official programming environment for the NXT, based on NXT-G, has recently introduced LabVIEW for LEGO® MINDSTORMS.

LabVIEW is the the company’s professional LabVIEW graphical system design software and well established in the industry for controlling machines and robots; the new version for LEGO® MINDSTORMS is focused on the educational sector and is thus meant to be used with the Education version of the NXT set:

"Developed specifically for secondary school students to use with the LEGO Education robotics platform in classrooms or competitions, LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS is a teaching tool that helps students visually control and program MINDSTORMS NXT robots, while learning the same software used by scientists and engineers"

as the company states.

Consequently, the new programming platform well be sold exclusively  through LEGO Education and its authorised resellers.

Demo at Robo Cup Jr.

Xander Soldaat and Larens Valk did a LEGO NXT demo at the Nemo Science center in Amsterdam. Here's a video that features some of the robots they showed, including two robots from The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Inventor's Guide: The front wheel driven Jeep and the Printer.