Most Imaginative / Craziest / Interesting Thing You've Done With LabVIEW

[vivi]

I wrote a program not that long ago that displays satellite pictures from the net. it is kind of like Terra-server

[Ben]

Shane,

I do a lot of work for US government labs that know very little about automation.

I have quoted a project that is intended to toss dedicated thermal printers that are attached to a row of washing machine sized instruments.

It sounded like your application was what I was planning on developing. Any time I can find a cheaper way to fill my customer's need's I try to jump on it. It makes my customers happy by getting what they want for less $$$ and lets me play with more interesting challenges with the money that is left over.

Do not chase down the code!

Ben

BTW: Vivi Terra-Viewer is some great code! I keep getting requests from my modeling partner to dump more maps.

[vivi]

ben, thank you very much for the compliment

[PaulG.]

I once set up a test station that utilized syringe pumps, an I/O board, an AC relay board, a scale that measured the weight of water collected in a sample cup, a pump to evacuate the sample cup, etc. This contraption was set up next to an environmental test chamber. The UUT had a 120V blower and heater and was placed inside the chamber. I had water dispensed at different ml/min rates, controlling the blower and heater and environmental conditions. I simply measured the weight of the water samples coming out of the UUT every 5 minutes of so and sent the results to a network data file. Since there were so many different temp/humidity/fluid dispense rates that needed to be tested it had to run 24 hours a day for weeks at a time just to collect all the required data. That was a fun project. Too bad it only took me a few days to do it. Then it just ran itself. In the old days they would have paid some schmuck with a stopwatch to to it all by hand

Paul

[Matthew_Williams]

We made a rodent densitometer prototype for a customer with a fieldpoint controller.
Measured the volume (non-destructively) and mass, then calculated.  Rats and mice
rejoiced because the current industry practice _is_ destructive, significantly impacting
the utility of the subjects for further experimentation.


Matt

[chilly_charly]

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Matthew Williams a écrit:
We made a rodent densitometer prototype for a customer with a fieldpoint controller.
Measured the volume (non-destructively) and mass, then calculated. 

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Ho ho !
How did you measure the volume ?

[tst]

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chilly charly wrote:

Ho ho !
How did you measure the volume ?

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Never mind that!

What I want to know is who would want to measure the volume and density of rodents.

And more importantly, did you get some of those not-destructed rodents after the job so you could have a friendly game of whack-the-mole?

[Ben]

tst wrote

"I want to know is who would want to measure the volume and density of rodents"

I can't tell you who or reveal any details but we needed to test a drug that would help mice relax after being disturbed.

They hung mice by their tails and measured how long it took them to accept the situation and relax.

Just short rodent tail tale.

Ben

[altenbach]

And I definitely don't want to know how the destructive volume measurement works. 😉

(Does it involve a blender and a graduated beaker? 🐵

[chilly_charly]

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Ben a écrit: ..They hung mice by their tails and measured how long it took them to accept the situation and relax.

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Since ultimately this drug will have human therapeutic use, I hope that they will imagine some kind of other test on man ! 😮

Hum... Sorry... I could not resist... :D:D:D