The Mobile Studio I/O board, developed at RPI, http://mobilestudio.rpi.edu/, provides students with the ability to perform laboratory experiments outside of the classroom. This project seeks to expand software support for this hardware to Linux.
Switchboard is a hardware driver abstraction library for LabVIEW™ applications. Once integrated with you application you can acquire data from new devices simply by editing a text config file to let Switchboard know about your device.