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Untypical uses for LabVIEW : G Abuse

I had written code to parse hex file for a bit of reverse engineering.
THe parsed hex file was converted to their equivalent commands (specific for the RF-chipset). It wasn't assembly, but a similar type of language.

It was fun and the conversion was fast..

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Here's an example of my abuse of LabVIEW.

Remember Tyco's Magic 8-Ball; I'm giving away may age with a reference to this old toy.
Anyway, you would proclaim your question, shake it and then wait for the answer to appear.

I was playing around with sub-VI icon shapes and made one that appeared on the diagram as an 8-Ball.
That led to actually making a sub-VI that worked. An online search provided the actual response messages.

Anyway, here's an installer without the RTE.

James
LabVIEW 5.0 seems so long ago...
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@jrjones wrote:
Remember Tyco's Magic 8-Ball; I'm giving away may age with a reference to this old toy.




No.. it doesn't give away your age..

In fact, it was used by a woman on last season's "The Apprentice".

We had a psin-off of the toy, 2 jobs ago. We would spin the wheel to find out 1 of 4 outcomes:

1. Product will Fail.
2. Product will Pass but miss shipment.
3. Product will Pass and be shipped.
4. Some Product will pass with partial shipment.


And you know what??? The wheel was rather accurate..

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It favored "Product will FAIL"..

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Well,

This may be untypical, but one of my hobbies is working on cars.. I also am able to tune the Fueling parameters in the ECM, so I use my OBD1 datalogger to get all the data from the ALDL stream. I had created a LV program that would take the raw data, sort it, round it, and avg it with specified parameters.. Calculate the new fueling #, replace the old and then Interpolate anything between parameters that were not actually read.

I probably spent more time building the VIs, but now I can go drive my car for 30-4 minutes, bring back the data and within 5 mins of the LV program running have new fuel maps to try out.


Another program was along the same lines, I wanted to see what the RPM of the motor would be at cruising speed with different rear differential gear sets.. I had set up a program for transmission tyoes with ratios, tir size, all of it.. worked out pretty good too
Jeff D.

Certified Architect LabVIEW Champion DQMH Framework

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Once I wrote an application to find the exact number of Enthusiasts on the LabVIEW forum.
It worked nicely, except that sometimes the NI server was too busy to answer in an acceptable time and some members were missed. That was not a big issue since the week after they were spotted again and the List was corrected.
Guess what : a bunch of contemptible sniggerers conspicously claimed that this was a bug, and tried to make a fuss of it. How pathetic... As usual, I just ignored those provocateurs, specialy the one who pretended a few time ago to play the chevalier d'Eon with us.

Remember "La critique est aisée, mais l'art est difficile".

Ring-a-Ding-Ding

CC
Chilly Charly    (aka CC)
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