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4	4	|(% colspan="2" style="width:400px" %)**What is FlowBotics Studio?**
5	5	|(% colspan="2" style="width:400px" %)FlowBotics Studio is a new development platform for robotics software: it boasts the powerful FlowBotics graphical programming language, and includes many demo robotics projects to get you started. It can be used to control just about any robotics platform, data acquisition board, motor controller, servo board, sound card, or webcam.
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7	7	FlowBotics Studio includes hundreds of built-in components that allow you to interface your PC to many of the standard computer peripherals and, using the FlowBotics programming language, you can quickly create new components for new hardware. You can also easily create new projects with custom GUI screens, knobs, buttons, switches, etc. that will run live from within FlowBotics Studio without needing to wait for compilation.
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9	9	Using the FlowBotics programming language is as easy as dragging new components out of the library into the project's schematic, and making green links to connect one component's output of another one's input. FlowBotics even has support for writing custom modules in Ruby, a traditional procedural language.
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18	18	|(% colspan="2" style="width:400px" %)Since the demo projects are open source, they can be modified to tailor a specific purpose or parts can be extracted for use in new projects, and the new demos will be available through FlowBotics updates.
19	19	|(% colspan="2" %)**Graphics in FlowBotics Studio**
20	20	|(% style="vertical-align:middle" %)The FlowBotics programming language includes a powerful graphics engine that allows you to make custom graphical objects by using standard bitmaps or by drawing your own shapes on the screen. Using this system, you can build entirely custom interfaces for your projects and integrate photographs, drawings, and graphs.|(% style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle" %)[[image:fbs-graphics.jpg]]
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	21	+|(% colspan="2" %)**Video in FlowBotics Studio**
	22	+|(% colspan="2" %)Using FlowBotics, you can record and playback video from your webcam and, using some of the video processing modules, can do motion detection, colour detection and facial recognition. The graphics engine you can even display live video inside your project's GUI.
	23	+|(% colspan="2" %)**Audio in FlowBotics Studio**
	24	+|(% colspan="2" %)FlowBotics also has a powerful audio engine that allows you to record and playback sounds, and even generate some of your own. You can import WAV and MP3 files and process the audio using signal processing modules like EQ: you can even create your own synthesizer sounds using the built in oscillators and filters.
	25	+|(% colspan="2" %)**Interface to the outside world**
	26	+|(% colspan="2" %)FlowBotics has a huge range of supported computer interfaces, from data acquisition boards, home automation, webcams, soundcards, networking, serial ports and USB devices. There are thousands of supported devices, including parts from Lynxmotion, Phidgets, Pololu, and Robot Electronics and also parts implementing standard Bluetooth, Xbee, Modbus, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, HID, RS232, RS485, CAN Bus, SPI, I2C, X10, DMX512, and other popular protocols.
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	33	+|(% colspan="2" %)**Hobby Robotics**
	34	+|(% colspan="2" style="width:400px" %)Use FlowBotics Studio to control your hobby robotics, using the pre-made demo projects for many of the Lynxmotion kits or build your own projects just for fun.
	35	+|(% colspan="2" style="width:400px" %)**STEM Education**
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	37	+__Science:__ Use FlowBotics Studio to create applications for science experiments, test and measurement, data logging, graphs, saving files to disk and more.
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	39	+__Technology:__ FlowBotics Studio can be the heart of your design for things like home automation, A/V recording, video processing, audio processing, more.
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	41	+__Engineering:__ Use FlowBotics Studio to create mechatronic engineering systems including control systems, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), human-machine interface, and autonomous robot systems.
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