NI Week 2009 is Almost Here and the CD Shattering Demo is Back

[Adri_K.]

NI Week 2009 is only days away! I hope that you will be joining us for the great NI Week Events and have your calendars marked with all the LabWindows/CVI sessions, certifications, and demos. You can see a full list of the LabWindows/CVI sessions in the NI Week 2009 LabWindows/CVI Events blog post and can get all the NI Week informaiton on the NI Week 2009 home page.

The HALT/HASS Automated Test with the NI LabWindows™/CVI Real-Time Module demo is back! You may have seen this demo if you joined us for a previous NI Week Conference, and have heard it referred to as the familiar with the infromal name of the LabWindows™/CVI CD shattering demo.

We have made major improvements to the demo and we are excited to show it off. The demo uses LabWindows™/CVI Real Time on a PXI embedded controller to control a motor that performs lifetime testing of a CD by spinning it and measuring the speed of the disc. There are two control modes: spin up and down through cycles, and spin until failure.  You can interact with the motor control and analyze measurement displays using the LabWindows™/CVI Real Time module, an ASP.NET web page with Measurement Studio web controls, network variables and TDMS data files.

Be sure to mark your calendar for one of the scheduled CD failure tests so that you can witnees a CD being shattered!

[LockheedJoe]

It's good to see this demo, back. Maybe next year you can make it bigger. Possibly spin up a car tire until it explodes! Or something new like a potato gun on a turret with an image finder for aiming, all controlled by CVI. Then you can take shot's at the LabVIEW demo's as targets.I'll bring the potato's.

Just a thought.

[Adri_K.]

The CD shattering demo is possibly the most "catch your attention" demo as it is today. We had a huge crowd when we were setting it up on the Expo floor and testing it over the weekend...on a Sunday morning! Its so awesome that we were attracting a crowd before NI Week even started! I like where you are headed with the idea of making it bigger, but an exploding tire might be hard to swing. Will you be attending the Welcome Party this evening and witnessing the CD shattering? - Adri Kruger

[LockheedJoe]

No, I'm having to go on an EXPO only pass this year so it's on my own dime and my time there will be limitied. I'm driving down early on Wednesday morning and leaving Thursday after the keynotes. Our management doesn't see an immediate impact on the bottom line from confernces like NI Week or AutoTestCon so only the managers are going.

I'm still hoping to go to the Wednesday evening party (They're always a blast!) if I can pay for that one event.

[Adri_K.]

I will be on the Expo floor Wedneday and I will be at the Conference party. I am looking forward to meeting you and other CVI users.

[LockheedJoe]

I'm looking forward to meeting the new Queen of CVI as well as some of the people I've seen over the last few years, and a few new people e-mailed through my blog. Have a great conference!