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As a TA, I found hardware compatibility was frequently an issue for Mac users in my classes. Students often wanted to pair small, battery-powered Arduino hardware with a nicer LabVIEW interface on their laptops. Synchronizing data between the two over serial or WiFi was often a source of confusion; the NI-supported toolkit (LINX) made it easy to program the Arduino entirely from LabVIEW and keep the two in sync, but it only supported a limited number of older Arduino models—not the fancier ones students wanted to use in their projects.

Since the LINX toolkit is open-source, I decided to extend it to support newer Arduino models (and their additional features). In addition to the LINXx code itself, I also set up Doxygen to automatically document the code and publish it to GitHub Pages; that way, it should be easier for others to understand how the existing project works and where to start for further adaptations.

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