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Welcome to VI Shots. The VI stands for virtual instrumentation. No, it has nothing to do with musical instruments. You can use graphical programming software like LabVIEW to create user-defined solutions (measurement instruments) that meet your specific needs – very different from the proprietary, fixed functionality of traditional instruments. For example, if you don’t have an oscilloscope handy, just insert a USB DAQ card into your laptop and write an oscilloscope software application. You now have a virtual oscilloscope instrument.

VI Shots founder: Michael Aivaliotis
Contact: info@vishots.com
Michael has been working in the test and measurement industry since 1993. He started his career as a test engineer and quickly fell in love with the graphical programming paradigm that LabVIEW provided. Since then, he’s worked on dozens of complex test systems in electronics, semiconductor, automotive, telecom, biomedical and other industries. At around the end of 2002, Michael started experimenting with web technologies and was the first to create a LabVIEW Blog. Around the same time, the LAVA Forums were born and a lot of effort was put into developing a solid foundation. Now, the LAVA Forums has become the largest independent online LabVIEW community. Michael’s latest passion is Video Blogging. VI Shots was born out of a video blogging experiment at NIWeek 2007.

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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. [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]