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Incongruous sightings of LabVIEW/NI

thoult — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 20:49:05 GMT

After a busy week at work trying to make headway on an automated product test system, I'd gone back to my parents' for a belated Thanksgiving meal (no public holidays for us in the UK, even as an expat 😕 ) and woke up this morning with nothing to do but read the papers.

Flick to the Sports section in the Telegraph, and there's an article on Christian Eriksen, one of Tottenham Hotspurs' new signings this year. The interviewer caught up with him at an education day for a demo of the club's future UTC. Part way through, I read the following line:

"The 21-year-old joined prospective students in trying out Haptic robot arms and a myRIO power helmet, the new wave of technology designed for sport and the medical arena."

Curiosity piqued, a quick Google takes me here:

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/christian-gets-technical-261113/

Remember, that's Eriksen - not Altenbach 😉

Nice bit of free publicity!

Anyone else had any incongruous NI/LabVIEW sightings recently?

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altenbach — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 22:06:06 GMT

I like the nerdyness of the start of the video. 😄

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thoult — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 17:06:03 GMT

Sat waiting for a haircut at the barber, leafing through an ancient copy of Top Gear magazine, I stumbled across this:

The article's about a former researcher in a division of BAE Systems, who is labelled as 'the real life Q'. Pretty sure I recognise the researcher's name in the context of SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping) - will check when I get home!

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thoult — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:15:00 GMT

http://narrative.ly/weird-science/the-tongue-powered-test-drive/

On paternity leave for my first child, and have saved a mountain of articles to read through his nights of not sleeping. Stumbled across one on a drive system for a quadriplegic with an unmistakeable shot of LabVIEW in the background.

A bit of digging finds this: https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/sweet-apps/blog/2012/05/22/wheelchair-control-on-the-tip-of-your-tongue

All a little more worthwhile than the production process stuff I do on a day to day basis!

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Hooovahh — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:50:13 GMT

If you haven't found it yet there is a wiki that hasn't been updated in a while, which finds LabVIEW on TV.

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-1779

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thoult — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:51:00 GMT

Thanks for that.

Meant to upload this earlier:

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elset191 — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:39:37 GMT

I saw some LabVIEW code in the PBS documentary "To Catch a Comet" that aired shortly after Rosetta delivered Philae to 67P.

If I recall the scene correctly they were operating some sort of vaccuum chamber and heater to get their simulated comet to sublimate. As you can see it's 27:00 into the show.

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Phil_ — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:25:45 GMT

Spotted on the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, firing some vision guided paint ball guns.

video link: http://richannel.org/making-contact

Are any of you guys going to own up to being the guy in the video?

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tst — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:23:42 GMT

That's a Waterloo Labs thing. You can find more info on this (and other cool projects they did) on their site - http://www.waterloolabs.com/

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AnalogKid2DigitalMan — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:08:27 GMT

Bigger than Darren's Nuggets, using LabVIEW (see screen at upper right), a Kinect, and a robot arm to cut breast fillets from chicken carcasses. Yum!

http://gemini.no/en/2014/12/using-robots-to-get-more-food-from-raw-materials/

-AK2DM

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Darren — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:05:01 GMT

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Hornless.Rhino — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 02:35:04 GMT

A cake shop could probably make you an edible version of that.

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tst — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:01:24 GMT

Tom Scott does all kinds of interesting things (his rants at the Computerphile channel are always fun - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLux5q2c4P_IqbKF11-pfsR ).

Anyway, one of his recent videos was in a wind tunnel, where the LV program for the control system stands out easily - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0fViGU-Snc

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tst — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:37:19 GMT

So one of the tech sites had a story about a machine playing the violin. The concept was not super unique (the most immediate example which came to mind was the Guitar Hero demo), but I figured I would give it a look - http://www.sethgoldsteinkineticsculptures.com/

The website isn't that great (each machine only has a small section), but then I did notice a familiar name in the description ("Computer control was provided by Randall Pursley"), so I looked at the linked video and sure enough:

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GerdW — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:56:28 GMT

LabVIEW at MWC in Barcelona: German IT news (see picture in the last paragraph)

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thoult — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:23:37 GMT

Es gibt auch ein PXI-chassis im Hintergrund des ersten Foto, nicht wahr? 🙂

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LV_Pro — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:49:05 GMT

Ja, es ist!

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Ben — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:25:23 GMT

I am a member of Sigma Pi Sigma so I get updates from Physics Today including job listings. I review them just to keep up but I found a interesting job listed...

A LabVIEW Developer.

This is the URL

http://jobs.physicstoday.org/jobs/6931737/labview-developer?dm_i=21FU,3913B,H9XCHI,BMXQ2,1

May be one of Y'all can make use of this info.

Otherwise take it as sign that LV has become a part of the physics world.

Ben

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PaulG. — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:16:22 GMT

LV has been in the physics world for years. I know they use LabVIEW at the CERN supercollider to control the imaging. I doublt they do any math with it, tho, since most of CERN's math code was probably written 30 years ago in Fortran. Nothing really new happens in physics very often.

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Hornless.Rhino — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:38:23 GMT

@Ben wrote:

I am a member of Sigma Pi Sigma so I get updates from Physics Today including job listings. I review them just to keep up but I found a interesting job listed...

A LabVIEW Developer.

This is the URL

http://jobs.physicstoday.org/jobs/6931737/labview-developer?dm_i=21FU,3913B,H9XCHI,BMXQ2,1

May be one of Y'all can make use of this info.

Otherwise take it as sign that LV has become a part of the physics world.

Ben

"Document software, including requirements, design, code, user manuals, and online help"

That responsibility should narrow the field a bit 😛