LabVIEW Community Edition

LabVIEW Community Edition is a free (unpaid) edition of LabVIEW and LabVIEW NXG that may only be used for personal, non-commercial, non-industrial and non-academic purposes. It provides all of the capabilities of the professional editions of LabVIEW and LabVIEW NXG and comes bundled with the LINX toolkit for use with Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard and Arduino. LabVIEW Community Edition is for the hobbyist wishing to use graphical programming for their projects.

Download

LabVIEW Community Edition is available for download on the LabVIEW Community Edition page.

Learn

Post from LabVIEW Champion Joerg Hampel

Visit Joerg Hampel's blog post to learn about LabVIEW Community edition. Joerg answers questions like:

• What exactly is this new edition?
• Is it free?
• Who is it for?
• What about hobbyist hardware?

LabVIEW Community Edition Sneak Peek (VI Shots)

Note: Audio is delayed in this video.

Getting Started

About The Example	Download Link	Author
This example demonstrates how to use LabVIEW Community Edition in conjunction with BeagleBone, SystemLink Cloud, and a web front to monitor the open/close state of doors and windows in a house.	Getting Started with LabVIEW Community Edition And Beaglebone Or Raspberry Pi	Elijah Kerry
This example introduces you to the basic syntax of the LabVIEW Graphical language by implementing an alarm clock state machine. The example is broken down into lessons that build on each other and introduce digestible concepts one phase at a time.	LabVIEW Community and a Slice Of Raspberry Pi	Chris Cilino
Also check out the resources at the Getting Started LabVIEW Wiki page.	Getting Started

Find Code

Use GCentral.org to find LabVIEW packages.

Ask Questions

Ask your friendly, neighborhood LabVIEW Experts at:

• LabVIEW Community Edition board on LAVA
• NI's Forums. There is a board for LabVIEW and LabVIEW NXG.

See Also

• Linx Toolkit Hardware Compatibility List - List of open-source hardware supported by LabVIEW Community Edition and the LINX toolkit.