VI Shots

004 VISP LabVIEW Quickdrop with Darren

In this episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW podcast, I have Darren Nattinger of National Instruments back to chat about his favorite feature of LabVIEW – Quickdrop. Darren is not new to this podcast. I had him on the show back in episode 002 where he gave us some interesting insight to his background and [...]

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005 VISV Optimizing LabVIEW Class Loading with the Factory Pattern

In this video tutorial, I share with you a technique that I use, when I want to be selective of how LabVIEW child classes load into memory. Specifically, by using the Factory pattern, I can dynamically load a class into memory and create an instance of a child class on-demand. It’s important to note that LabVIEW [...]

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003 VISP Justin Goeres – CLA Summit

In this 3rd episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW podcast. I sat down with Justin Goeres and we chatted about the NI 2011 CLA (Certified LabVIEW Architect) summit, we both attended, which happened in Austin March 7-8. Justin gives us a run down of all the reasons why you should be attending next year if you are [...]

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004 VISV Dynamic Process VIs in LabVIEW (Part 2 of 2)

Part 1 of this video can be found here. It’s highly recommended that you watch part 1 before watching this video. This is part 2 of a 2-part video series where we go into more advanced topics related to using dynamic VIs as parallel asynchronous processes in LabVIEW. Topics covered in this video: Using queues to send [...]

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003 VISV Dynamic Process VIs in LabVIEW (Part 1 of 2)

Part 2 of this video can be found here. This is part 1 of a 2-part video series where we go into detail on how to use dynamic VIs as parallel asynchronous processes in LabVIEW. Topics covered in this video: Differences between static vs dynamic VIs How to build an executable with dynamic VIs How [...]

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002 VISP Interview With Darren Nattinger

In this episode of VI Shots we sit down with Darren Nattinger of National Instruments to see why he is known as the fastest LabVIEW developer around. Darren is a senior software engineer and a Certified LabVIEW Architect and among the few people at National Instruments who codes in G. He shares some of his tips [...]

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002 VISV Hardware Emulation Using LabVIEW Classes

When writing a LabVIEW application that communicates with hardware. There are times when you need to have the code functional even though you don’t actually have the hardware in-hand. This could be because of time constraints. For example, parallel software development must happen while the instrument is being shipped or back-ordered. Or you’re presenting the [...]

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001 VISV Separating Compiled Code From VIs

By default, LabVIEW stores compiled code together with the VI file. This is something transparent to us and we don’t pay much attention to it. However, this can cause problems which appear when editing your VI. Sometimes when we edit a single VI, we notice that a number of other VIs require saving. Even though [...]

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001 VISP Interview With Ben Zimmer

In this (our first!) episode of the VI Shots podcast, we chat with Ben Zimmer of Enable training and Consulting. We discuss how he started using LabVIEW and how he’s built a growing business around providing training materials. He also talks about his interesting journey as a mentor to FIRST robotics teams and how that [...]

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Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Team 1717 – FIRST Robotics

This video is from my trip to Atlanta for the 2008 FIRST Robotic Championship.

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Powercast Wireless Power System

In this video from RoboBusiness 2008, we interview Steven from Powercast who shows off some cool wireless power technology. From the Powercast website: Founded in 2003, Powercast developed a receiver module with breakthrough efficiency levels. Coupled with a transmitter that sends RF energy using algorithms developed by Powercast, the Powercast Wireless Power Platform™ was [...]

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