Filipe Altoe

A portion of the development is being done on a Mac; so I don't think it should be a problem. But we haven't done any specific testing as of yet to officially claim we support it. As for the Teensy; it will be supported. Any official Arduino target released by the Arduino organization will for sure be supported. I'm really looking forward to getting this to high schools and potentially even middle school. We haven't decided on pricing as of yet. We will have two versions; base and professional. One targeted to the hobbyists and the other for more complex professional applications. I'm passionate about the makers movement; therefore, pricing will be in line with it for sure. Based on how much work this has been so far; we should charge $10k per license (like NI does for its C code gen). But it won't happen.

Michael is right. It does not use the C code gen toolkit; otherwise it would cost $10k + a tinny little bit for the Arduino piece. This way we can charge just $(a tinny little bit for the Arduino piece). Not only that but we have better control over the type of optimization we do that is more specific to the Arduino target. As you can imagine, if we were to leave the result of the LabVIEW code interpretation without any optimization on the code generation side, we would starve an Arduino Uno before we could complete the "Hello World!" sentence of the test VI. Btw; check out this video we just posted showing a demo of the compiler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE2we6o7erI

Currently; we have done all our testing with LV2014 and will release the first version for that version only. If the community requests other versions, we may do that based on the volume of the requests. It will be a paid tool; however, we are aligning ourselves with the makers movement; i.e. it will be very low cost. The actual price of the license is still being decided on and I will share with the community as soon as it has been defined.

Hi ViSci; I may take you up on your offer of becoming a beta tester. Not sure exactly when we will reach that stage; but it is coming soon for sure if we want to keep the March time lime for release. Answering your question; yes, the compiler supports all basic LabVIEW primitives structures (case structs, for, while, sequence) as well as subVIs along with over 100 other LabVIEW primitives. A lot of work! But we are excited about the doors something like this may open to the LabVIEW community. One thing to keep in mind though is that Arduinos (especially the little UNO ) are very small embedded micro controller targets. Therefore, even though the compiler will support arrays and strings, like LabVIEW does, one needs to be extra careful when using those constructs as they are memory vortexes. They will suck the life out of an Arduino Uno very quickly.

Hi guys; Check out what we are doing with LabVIEW and Arduinos. http://www.tsxperts.com/arduino-compiler-for-labview/ We created an actual LabVIEW compiler for Arduino targets that allows Arduinos to be programmed in LabVIEW. Figured to share this with the community. Cheers Filipe