LabVIEW on the Mac is alive and well – Macworld Expo 2008
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New ExpressionFlow Studio video series
As you know, here at VI Shots we love video. So I’m excited that one of our favorite blogs has started producing a new series of videos focusing on LabVIEW Object-Oriented programming. I’ve embedded the first video above.
Tomi’s done a great job on the graphics, and he cuts from wide to close up shots nicely. [...]
Goldfish following camera powered by LabVIEW
Well, this video could use some editing but here it is. A totally useless application demonstrating the vision capabilities of LabVIEW. Watch a camera mounted on an X-Y motion platform tracking the movements of a goldfish in a fish tank.
Free Spore creature creator
I just downloaded the free Spore creature creator. I created my first creature, took some photos of it and even uploaded a video to Youtube directly from the software. All of the above in just half an hour of playing with it. It’s pretty slick.
I gotta hand it to the creators for coming up with [...]
Mars rover demo exhibit powered by LabVIEW
Describes the Mars Rover Exhibit Project made by students in the EPICS program at Purdue University and powered by LabVIEW.
Styrobots help Robotgrrl fund her school tuition
I always do what Google tells me to do. A few weeks ago my Google reader suggested that I should follow the robotgrrl blog RSS feed. So I did. This blog is about robotics from a Montreal, Canada High School girls point of view. Erin loves robots. So much so that she applied to the [...]
Slashbot Update – It’s finished!
We were the first to blog about Slashbot back in March. Now, Slashbot is Internet famous after it was featured on Engadget. It now has 177K+ hits on Youtube. A record for any video featuring LabVIEW or NI technology. I like the fact that it uses solenoids to hit the guitar buttons. This means it [...]
Polaroid, my former employer, used Macs to test the PDC2000 camera. I was responsible for much of that programming. I started SULLutions in ‘96 with only a Mac. Most of my clients, other than Polaroid’s electronic camera department, were on Windows machines. I’d do the development and debugging in my office, taking care to use the default fonts, then move the code to their machines for final test. The biggest problem was working with stubs to substitute for instruments I didn’t have on my system, but I would have had the same problem developing on a Windows machine. I certainly couldn’t afford to duplicate all my clients’ hardware in my office. IMAQ Vision has been the biggest problem. I now have a Windows machine that I use for testing new software before delivering it. That will move to my new Mac when I get it in the next couple of weeks. Less hardware, but it won’t avoid the hassle of maintaining a Windows machine. :-( At least I don’t have to use it every day. :-)
[...] out NI had a booth at MacWorld this year. I would have sacrificed a few toes to make it to the Mac promised land, but alas, it was not meant [...]
I would like to get back on the MAC. Can some brave soul try Virtualization software on a MACBOOKPRO and report results running LabVIEW?
Thank you for the update
I’m not using a Mac, but I’ve considered the transition. Recently I wrote a small LabVIEW game as a Christmas gift for ExpressionFlow readers. I only used very basic functionality. However the game didn’t work on mac without modifications. Why? Because LabVIEW for Mac didn’t support playing audio files. It was a Windows only functionality. Come on! Sound support is Windows only functionality! No way. What can I say?
Robert, I will be doing that on a Macbook in about 2 months. Stay tuned for the video.
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Two of my goldfish died last week. They were just active and happy last week. It