03-02-2015 08:19 AM
Just to clairify a bit on the student stuff. LabVIEW is free for students. It is initially free for 6 months, but I've seen several NI people say you can keep renewing those 6 months as long as you are a student. And LabVIEW is $20 for students for a license that doesn't expire, or $58 with a bunch of toolkits. They also have a $50 bundle that comes with an Arduino on sparkfun.
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03-02-2015 11:58 AM
Frankly, as an alliance partner, I lease my software reference library at a reasonable rate per year.