Need a true source of random numbers for your application?

[Aristos Queue]

Need a source of true random numbers? Here's an excellent source, assuming you have an Internet connection available to your application. What's the National Instruments connection? The system was developed with NI PXI systems and LabVIEW.

https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/sweet-apps/blog/2012/10/22/never-pick-your-own-lottery-numbers-again

The online generator mentioned by the article is here: http://qrng.anu.edu.au/

This sort of begs to be packaged into a single "Get Real Random Number From Internet.vi". Very handy utility for lots of applications!

[Phillip Brooks]

This reminds me of the Randomise Array thread.

A guy I worked with many years ago interfaced LabVIEW 5.0 to a device / DLL that used radiation counters to generate random values.

[Ton Plomp]

And there are two API clients for LabVIEW (https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/sweet-apps/blog/2012/10/22/never-pick-your-own-lottery-numbers-again#comment-24578). Full download at bitbucket

Ton

[Wouter]

http://www.random.org/ already provides the same functionality for several years. I wrote some VI's to get the random numbers/strings, https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-13121