VI Shots

014 VISP – Waterloo Labs Interns Work on Awesome Projects

February 21, 2012 · 2 comments

I’m very excited today to bring you an interview I did last year at NIWeek 2011. I sat down with a group of engineering interns at National Instruments. Now these intern positions were not typical. Hunter Smith and Ben James who managed this group of students, gave them the flexibility to do whatever project they wanted, as long as it was extremely awesome. How’s that for some parameters to work within?

Top Row: Hunter Smith, Ben James, Humphrey Huang, Peter Gayler - Bottom Row: Dylan Caswell, Tim Lynch, Me

This group within NI is called Waterloo Labs, and I had a great time talking with them. It’s feels great to see so much excitement in engineering. Some of the projects that have come out of Waterloo Labs is an iPhone controlled vehicle, an Eyeball powered super mario game, a Kinect powered etch-a-scetch. One of the coolest projects so far, I think is something they go in great detail in this interview.

Here are links to items mentioned in this podcast episode:

013 VISP Running a Successful LabVIEW based Business – Interview With Sixclear

I had the pleasure of talking with Brian Spears and Jassem Shahrani of Sixclear on today’s podcast. I had a great time talking about how they got started running their successful business which has LabVIEW as its core. Powered by LabVIEW, if you will. In addition to getting some insights into how they work and [...]

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012 VISP Get involved in the LabVIEW Coding Challenge

A quick podcast interview with Hassan Atassi, who is managing the latest LabVIEW Coding Challenge for the Winter of 2011. Listen to the podcast and find out what the two different challenges are and how you can get involved. The winner gets a sweet Sony Cyber-shot HX9V Digital Camera ($300). Some Deadlines to be aware of: Dec [...]

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011 VISP NI Field Architects Interview

I’m back from a very long absence. I’ve been very busy on various projects so I apologize for leaving you with such a huge gap. However, now I’m back and starting the flow of new audio podcast episodes and soon, new videos. In this episode of the VI Shots podcast, I interview the three members of the [...]

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010 VISP What’s New in LabVIEW 2011

I’ve reached the 10th podcast episode! That’s a big milestone for VI Shots. Another big milestone is the 25th anniversary of LabVIEW and the release of LabVIEW 2011. To get the rundown of all the new features, I asked Jeffrey Philipps from National Instruments to join me in this podcast episode. Do you know why [...]

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009 VISP Getting Ready for NIWeek 2011

In this episode of the VI Shots podcast, I invited three members of the LabVIEW community to talk about how to get the most out of NIWeek 2011. I have Darren Natinger from National Instruments, Christopher Relf from VI Engineering and Justin Goeres from JKI. There are a lot of things to see at NIWeek and [...]

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008 VISP Using LabVIEW FPGA on Wall Street

In this episode of the VI Shots podcast I sit down with Terry Stratoudakis who is the CEO of Wall Street FPGA. A company that specializes in the acceleration of trading and financial analytics software using LabVIEW FPGA. This is a new industry in general for LabVIEW and specifically LabVIEW FPGA. I was skeptical at first and a [...]

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007 VISP Interview with the Developer of the LabVIEW Interface for Arduino

In this episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW podcast I chat with Sam Kristoff and Ben James from National Instruments. Sam was responsible for most of the development in the LabVIEW interface for Arduino toolkit that was released a few weeks ago. I mention in the interview that I was having problems getting LabVIEW to communicate [...]

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007 VISV Getting Started With the LabVIEW Interface for Arduino

In this video tutorial, I give an overview of what the Arduino hardware is and how the LabVIEW Interface for Arduino (LIFA) works. I demonstrate a simple program I wrote that scrolls 12 LEDs with a variable speed similar to the lights KITT had in the Knight Rider TV series. Download Code Used in this Tutorial: (LabVIEW 2010) [...]

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006 VISP Mentoring a FIRST Robotics Team

In this episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW podcast I chat with Crystal Drumheller from W.L.Gore and Associates in Flagstaff Arizona and Justin Goeres from JKI. Before Crystal worked for her current employer, she worked for National Instruments. That’s where she got the LabVIEW bug and hasn’t looked back. Both Crystal and Justin mentor FIRST Robotics teams and [...]

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005 VISP Peter Kovacs – Code Madness Winner

Several weeks ago, National Instruments hosted an online coding challenge called: Code Madness 2011. In this episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW Podcast, my guests are Grant Heimbach who organized the challenge and Peter Kovacs who was the winner. Peter wrote some awesome code that scans through the NI Community site and returns all the documents available [...]

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