The software helps students, engineers, and hobbyists alike to create programs that communicate with and control EV3 bricks using LabVIEW. Because LabVIEW has connectivity with thousands of sensors, devices, and systems, users of all experience levels can quickly design complex and powerful robotics projects, making this platform ideal for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
The software included with LEGO EV3 products is created by NI and is also based on LabVIEW. Users can connect to the industrial version of LabVIEW for additional functionality with LEGO EV3. LabVIEW is the same programming software used in virtually every industry to power solutions to engineering challenges, such as the Red Bull Stratos supersonic freefall project and CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Students learning LabVIEW are using the same programming tools used by the world's most innovative scientists and engineers.
Chris Rogers, a Tufts professor who worked with the LEGO Group and NI to develop ROBOLAB – the language that inspired NXT-G and LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS – continues to use the robotics method for teaching science and mathematics in his classes.
