Ludwik Kordas presented the concept of a Circular Buffer (CB) and various ways to implement it in LabVIEW. His presentation and example VI’s are included in this post.

July 6th, first day back from 4th of July vacation is the next user group meeting. Topic: LabVIEW Design Patterns – Producer/Consumer, other demos This meeting will be at Seneca5, Tuesday July 6th at 6:30. Please note: We will NOT be serving pizza. Check out the LabVIEW Advanced User Group page for more details.

A cool contraption, a bunch of geeks, and pizza. What more could you want?

There was some discussion during the Popcorn Tweets demonstration about where the interest in the device came from. Although people from all over the world watched the video, Justin was surprised that a lot of the interest came from Brazil. Another member of our group Andrés, who is from Brazil, said that popcorn is a [...]

Mark your calendar. First day back from Memorial Day vacation is the next user group meeting. Topic: LabVIEW Design Patterns – VIG Timer, Producer/Consumer, and more This meeting will be at Seneca5, Tuesday June 1st at 6:30. We serve pizza, so you can come straight from work. Check out the LabVIEW Advanced User Group page for [...]

Ready, Aim… This month, Seneca5 will once again be presenting at the quarterly National Instruments LabVIEW User Group. Description Seneca5 will be presenting a technical demonstration on vision and motion. Using a Compact Vision System and a Firewire camera, users will interact with a video feed to control an aiming device. Demonstrates NI Compact Vision [...]

It’s time again for our monthly LabVIEW user group meeting. The topic this time is “Popcorn Tweets”. Justin Goeres of JKI will be presenting his Rube Goldberg contraption that pops popcorn based on Twitter activity on the word “popcorn”. If you have ever wanted to write a complicated LabVIEW program to use Lego parts and [...]

We had a great meeting discussing motor control of all types. Thanks to all who attended. Many people offered information on websites and products they have used. I wanted to capture some of them here in case anyone wants to check into them: Motor drivers for hobby servos phidgets.com geckodrive.com seetron.com/ssc.htm (serial control of 8 [...]

It’s time again for our monthly LabVIEW user group meeting. The topic this time is Motor Control with LabVIEW. This meeting will be at Seneca5, Tuesday April 6th at 6:30. We serve pizza, so you can come straight from work. Check out the LabVIEW Advanced User Group page for more details.

This time we will be looking into the Houston, we have a problem code in detail. This is the cRIO air jet control system that we demonstrated at the National Instruments User Group in February. We will have a chance to really dig into the details of the program and discuss the ins and outs [...]