National Instruments has just released the widely anticipated NI LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO Mindstorms NXT! Click the screenshot above for a closer look. Download and enjoy!

Per National Instruments:

Users including adults, students and secondary school and university educators can now can create and download VIs to operate and control the MINDSTORMS NXT robotics platform. Third-party software and hardware developers can also use the toolkit to create native blocks for MINDSTORMS NXT software.

Once a LabVIEW program has been compiled and downloaded to the NXT, the toolkit can be used to interact with the NXT robot while a program is running. By dropping a LabVIEW control, the toolkit can send data to the robot and influence the currently executing program. By dropping an indicator, the value at that point in the program is sent back to the PC and viewed in a regular LabVIEW front panel. Developers of third-party sensors and other hardware add-ons for MINDSTORMS NXT can use LabVIEW to create native blocks that program and control their hardware for use in MINDSTORMS NXT software.