{"id":13327,"date":"2016-04-08T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=13327"},"modified":"2023-02-08T03:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:58:52","slug":"raspberry-pi-and-beaglebone-black-linxed-to-labview-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/raspberry-pi-and-beaglebone-black-linxed-to-labview-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black&#8230;LINX&#8217;ed to Labview at Last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been paying attention to our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.ni.com\/t5\/LINX\/bd-p\/linx-toolkit?profile.language=en\">LabVIEW MakerHub<\/a>, you may have noticed an announcement made April 1st&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=blog:users:makerhub:2016-04-07-linx-3\"> LINX 3.0<\/a> has been released!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13332\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LINX1-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"LINX1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" data-wp-pid=\"13332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LINX1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LINX1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LINX1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LINX1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LINX1-1200x675-cropped.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LINX1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you haven&#8217;t followed LabVIEW MakerHub, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:linx:faq\">LINX <\/a>is a set of LabVIEW VI&#8217;s\u00a0that allows <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/labview-home-bundle\/\">LabVIEW <\/a>to connect to non-NI hardware platforms,\u00a0such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:nest:start\">Nest Thermostat<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:kinectone:start\">Kinect One<\/a>, Leap Motion Controller, Arduino, <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/embedded-processors\/\">chipKIT,\u00a0<\/a>and a few more. This software enables us to use LabVIEW to control the physical world. We were exceptionally excited about the previous version of LINX and created the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/labview-physical-computing-kit-with-chipkit-wf32\/\">LabVIEW Physical Computing Kit<\/a>, a bundle that included LabVIEW Home + our favorite chipKIT microcontroller board (WF32). Users could program LabVIEW and then <strong>connect<\/strong> to the<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/chipkit-wf32-wifi-enabled-microntroller-board-with-uno-r3-headers\/\"> WF32<\/a>\u00a0through a USB Cable and use a LabVIEW Front Panel to control the WF32.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digilent Physical Computing Kit for LabVIEW - 03 | Blink\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZjU1L0PbioI?start=82&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>LINX 2.0, required the &#8220;target&#8221; (the platform that was being <strong>connected<\/strong> to LabVIEW) to be tethered. This meant that at all times your Arduino or chipKIT had to be connected to the computer via a USB cable. Although for most applications this is completely okay&#8230;there are many for which you need to be <em>cut free<\/em><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img1.joyreactor.com\/pics\/post\/gif-dog-escape-1208389.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857;\">Which is what LINX 3.0 enables!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.857;\">With LINX 3.0, two new platforms are now supported, the Raspberry Pi and the BeagleBone Black! With these two platforms + the ability to <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857;\">deploy<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.857;\">, rather than just\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857;\">connect<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.857;\">, your LabVIEW code can now be unt<\/span>ethered.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.857;\">This is largely because in the past, LINX needed to have a host computer to run the LabVIEW VI&#8217;s&#8230;and many\u00a0microcontroller boards don&#8217;t have the resources to keep up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To make sure we support this new feature in LINX, Digilent is adding two new kits for the Physical Computing bundles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13329\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13329\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/26006256350_09772e340a_z-600x381.jpg\" alt=\"4\/6\/2016, the Digilent Store is selling Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black to support LINX 3.0\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" data-wp-pid=\"13329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/26006256350_09772e340a_z-600x381.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/26006256350_09772e340a_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4\/6\/2016, the Digilent Store is selling Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black to support LINX 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NEW AND EXISTING OPTIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New:\u00a0<\/strong>The Raspberry Pi is a brilliant platform for <strong>computing<\/strong>-type projects, or for users that want to make a cheap or portable computer. This includes things like image processing, spreadsheets and data processing. It lacks substantial I\/O (like PWM and analog reads\/writes), so it may require a microcontroller\u00a0board to off-load those low-level I\/O activities. It can be coupled with boards like Arduino or a chipKIT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13341\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/25656605754_2899257736_z-600x545.jpg\" alt=\"LabVIEW Rapberry Pi Pi\" width=\"600\" height=\"545\" data-wp-pid=\"13341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/25656605754_2899257736_z-600x545.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/25656605754_2899257736_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>New:\u00a0<\/strong>The BeagleBone Black has close to same processing abilities of the Raspberry Pi and also the low-level I\/O intergration. It&#8217;s basically what would happen if you mated a Rasperry Pi with an Arduino, high-end processing for an embedded Linux OS and PWM, analog read\/write, and power for breadboarded projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13342\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/26236092066_4cbeaf4a8b_z-600x598.jpg\" alt=\"Beaglebone black and LabVIEW\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" data-wp-pid=\"13342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/26236092066_4cbeaf4a8b_z-600x598.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/26236092066_4cbeaf4a8b_z-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/26236092066_4cbeaf4a8b_z-300x300-cropped.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/26236092066_4cbeaf4a8b_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Existing- Tethered:\u00a0<\/strong>The WF32, although a tethered option, is still a strong board for learning general electronics and ideal for\u00a0prototyping\u00a0electronics. It has an on-board Wifi module + double the I\/O of an Arduino board and is largely compatible with many of the Arduino projects out on the internet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13343\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/17171488181_e5156ee772_z-600x514.jpg\" alt=\"chipKIT and LabVIEW\" width=\"600\" height=\"514\" data-wp-pid=\"13343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/17171488181_e5156ee772_z-600x514.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/17171488181_e5156ee772_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Existing-Tethered:\u00a0<\/strong>The SparkFun RedBoard (or an Arduino) is an excellent starting point for someone who is very new to electronics. It&#8217;s essentially a more efficient (less knobs, wheels and buttons to be distracted by), simple microcontroller board that allows users to get started fast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SparkFun 6-19-15 Product Showcase: Labview SIK!\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CutVQxLGWv0?start=77&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For $89.00 you can choose which bundle is best for your LabVIEW projects, using our table below!<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3><strong>Product<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3><strong>Best for&#8230;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3>Needs to be Tethered?<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3>Price USD<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LabVIEW Home Bundle : Software Only<\/td>\n<td>Learning how to use LabVIEW!<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">N\/A<\/td>\n<td>$49.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Physical Computing Kit- RedBoard\/Sparkfun Inventor&#8217;s Kit<\/td>\n<td>Good for the very elementary beginner, comes with amazing Tutorials and can be bought at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/products\/13271\">Sparkfun.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Includes LabVIEW Home<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Yes<\/td>\n<td>$149.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Physical Computing Kit- WF32<\/td>\n<td>Good for someone who is looking for a more advanced set of projects or needs high current and WiFi. This is an ideal board for handling motors and a lot of analog I\/O.<\/p>\n<p>Includes LabVIEW Home<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Yes<\/td>\n<td>$89.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Physical Computing Kit- Beagle Bone Black<\/td>\n<td>This combines a lot of the functions found on both the WF32 and the Rapsberry Pi and brings a lot of I\/O to an embedded Linux machine. Great for robotics and high end projects needing a lot of horsepower.<\/p>\n<p>Includes LabVIEW Home<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">No<\/td>\n<td>$89.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Physical Computing Kit- Raspberry Pi<\/td>\n<td>Ideal for a user who wants to replace where a laptop would be in a project, which a much smaller and lower power version.<\/p>\n<p>Includes LabVIEW Home<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">No<\/td>\n<td>$89.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NI myRIO<\/td>\n<td>This is a fully supported by NI, LabVIEW super-target that can pretty much do anything listed above.<\/p>\n<p>Includes LabVIEW Home<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">No<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Contact NI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are extremely excited to have more LabVIEW targets in our catalog, but even more excited for the sorts of projects that will now be coming\u00a0out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/\">LabVIEW MakerHub Community!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So head over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/\">store <\/a>and check out the new products!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-13327 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='13327' data-nonce='918fd0a5fa' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-13327 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-13327 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='13327' data-nonce='918fd0a5fa' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-13327 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-13327 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set your projects free (literally and figuratively) with our new product releases!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4323],"tags":[156],"ppma_author":[4470],"class_list":["post-13327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-new-product-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/26006256350_09772e340a_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4470,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"larissa","display_name":"Larissa Swanland","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f61b3eec23600758fbff3f5d93b1747629d804ba07aa739844b484018ff6786?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Swanland","last_name_2":"","first_name":"Larissa","first_name_2":"","job_title":"","description":"I'm a bit of an electronics-education evangelist. 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