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Rented a lens (70-200 2.8) for the hillclimb race in Jackson.

Hillclimb race got cancelled (Not enough snow, what snow is on the mountain is avalanching down). 

Loaded up my gear, hopped on the moto and disappeared into the night. Smiley Happy

 

 

 

Shipped that $2500 stack-o-glass back this morning for some store credit. 

(and got a new desktop pic at work for a while. Smiley Tongue)

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FirstLight.jpg

 

Got some new toys to play with. Need to integrate a CO2 and UV Galvo along with a DPSS laser into one of my laser stations.

So I thought I would play around with a Galvo controller connected to a DAQ to test out all the I/O operation. Was able to call up uploaded programs in the galvo and execute them.

Here is the first light (note my laser pointer on hand at the time did not have a modulation input, thus the raster lines between characters, kinda cool effect thought).

On a side note, seeing Brit Floyd for the first time in July, just a few days after Rush!

 

-AK2DM

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Still riding! Smiley Happy  Hillcross race last weekend.

 

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318.jpegThe Perfect Selfie

 

 

New address duly updated on MyNI profile.


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found @  http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/Engineer.html

 

How does it look like in LabVIEW??

 

Greetings from Germany
Henrik

LV since v3.1

“ground” is a convenient fantasy

'˙˙˙˙uıɐƃɐ lɐıp puɐ °06 ǝuoɥd ɹnoʎ uɹnʇ ǝsɐǝld 'ʎɹɐuıƃɐɯı sı pǝlɐıp ǝʌɐɥ noʎ ɹǝqɯnu ǝɥʇ'


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@Henrik_Volkers wrote:

 

@found @  http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/Engineer.html

 

How does it look like in LabVIEW??

 


Well, at least you turn "Women" "On"

 

Could you link to the Programming Manual?

 

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For "Others"  The LMB just needs "NI.COM =False" Smiley Surprised

 


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@JÞB wrote:

Could you link to the Programming Manual?

 

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For "Others"  The LMB just needs "NI.COM =False" Smiley Surprised

 


You missed something important, it's type "Man" that get programmed! 

Type "Woman" is pur analog and with too much feedback they start oscillating 😄 ,

(its rarely reported, but it is said that is possible to find a stable setpoint, however nearly impossible to get a controller for it ) 

Greetings from Germany
Henrik

LV since v3.1

“ground” is a convenient fantasy

'˙˙˙˙uıɐƃɐ lɐıp puɐ °06 ǝuoɥd ɹnoʎ uɹnʇ ǝsɐǝld 'ʎɹɐuıƃɐɯı sı pǝlɐıp ǝʌɐɥ noʎ ɹǝqɯnu ǝɥʇ'


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I did not go swimming this weekend. Smiley Wink

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I was looking at some spaghetti code one day and from afar it reminded me of a Mondrian (It was probably too early or too late for me)

 

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=78682

 

Because I don't have anything better to do, like helping out uers, I figured why not make spaghetti code that actually was art?  Below is the first iteration of my script.  Everything you can see in the block diagram is a wire.

 

BDLabVIEW.png

 

I use 16 classes (4-bit color) and carefully wire them in reference to a 4 bit pixmap generated from an 8-bit png.  Currently it is all brute force and this 34x34 image took about 15 minutes to make.  The colors also get pretty messed up but you can at least make out what I was going for.

 

If anyone knows how to programmatically create classes with special wire types I would be super excited.  I think 8-bit color would be a lot cooler but I really don't want to sit around and make 256 classes.

Matt J | National Instruments | CLA
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