November 2007

LAVA Member – Mark Balla at NIWeek

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    Mark Balla is a very active member of the LabVIEW community and contributes his valuable time to the LAVA forums. He developed an Icon editor replacement for LabVIEW, is currently a member of the Code Repository review team and is an organizer for the LAVA Coding Challenges. I spent a few minutes at [...]

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LabVIEW powers MOT-V and Unicycle

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  Mike Kleinigger is currently a sophomore at RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) pursuing a dual degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. In this video He discusses the MOT-V (Medium Object Transport Vehicle) at NIWeek 2007. Unlike the Segway style vehicle, the MOT-V always tries to keep it’s position vertical as oppose to moving forward.We were [...]

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LabVIEW powers University of Tulsa Challenge X vehicle

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  In this video interview we have Amanda Emnett from the University of Tulsa give us a tour of the vehicle her team worked on for the Challenge X competition. The “brain” of the vehicle control system is powered by a Compact RIO Real-Time FPGA system that was programmed with LabVIEW.Challenge X is a three [...]

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TestStand Does HO Scale Race Cars

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  In this video taken at NIWeek 2007, we interview Rick Francis who is one of the TestStand developers. The only reason this demo is cool is because of the HO sized slot cars. Each car is a “device under test”.  

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Jay Kinzie – Lego Mindstorms NXT MCP

Jay Kinzie is an avid Lego Mindstorms fan, he contributes to the NXT STEP blog and is a participant in FLL competitions. He is also a MINDSTORM Community Partner (MCP). Jay showed us some of his creations at NIWeek 2007 this past August. Jay is also a freshman mechanical engineering student at Rose-Hulman Institute of [...]

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Chris Anderson hates graphical programming

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So Chris Anderson the Editor-in-chief of Wired magazine did the final keynote presentation at NIWeek 2007 this past August. I was really excited about this since up to the run up to NIWeek I had managed to purchase and read his book, The Long Tail. I was also eager to get him to sign it, [...]

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LabVIEW helps Virginia Tech team win third place in DARPA Urban Challenge

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It’s great to see LabVIEW once again at the forefront of autonomous robotics. This time with an impressive finish by Virginia Tech team Victor Tango and their vehicle named Odin. Virginia Tech, along with TORC Technologies, won the $500,000 third place prize last weekend at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge. In [...]

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RoMeLa – DARwIn Robot Using LabVIEW RT

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Karl Muecke was at the Robo Development conference 2007 showing of DARwIn. DARwIn stands for Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence. Karl was visiting from RoMeLa, the robotics and mechanisms laboratory at Virginia Tech. RoMeLa does a lot of research into robotics locomotion strategies. The development of DARwIn started back in 2005 with version 1 and [...]

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Hanson Robotics – Preview of Zeno

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  Hanson Robotics has done some incredible work in the area of robotic human facial expression emulation. Check out their website which has several videos of their handiwork. David Hanson is a true pioneer and visionary in this field. With the invention of Frubber and special AI interaction algorithms, he is helping build the future [...]

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