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Thanks to Justin for the link: <iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s-cnNJ5cDUc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The session register is up and running. Access the NIWeek App online or on your smart phone. On your PC/laptop go to http://portal.niw2012.alliancetech.com/ On a smart phone go to http://mobile.niw2012.alliancetech.com/ You will need your confirmation number to sign in. For some strange reason there is only one 'What's New in LabVIEW 2012' session and it conflicts with one that JKI guys are doing. Bummer...

Based on the squeaky wheel programming paradigm, I finally broke down and created a very very basic version of LVSpeak which simply enables speech detection in LabVIEW. Refresher This version of LVS is fully decoupled from the QuickEdit engine which enables you to speak common commands to LV and operate on GObjects (front panel and block diagram items) This should be packaged into a VIPM package but is not yet. It has imported its dependencies (ESF and REx) so that no other downloads are needed for the moment. Dependencies would be handled in the future through VIPM I'm posting for a specific person, but want to share w/ everyone. There are many more things that I have in the full version of the LVS Engine, but for simplicity sake, I wanted to boil this down to the least common elements. Enjoy, Norm ~,~ The Captain was hereLVS_Basic.zip

--- UPDATE 2012-08-05: Ticket pre-sales are now closed. If you need to buy a ticket at NIWeek, this post has what you need to know. --- It's that time of year again! Are you coming to NIWeek 2012? Do you want to enjoy cold beers and hot mesquite BBQ with your friends from LAVA, OpenG, and the whole LabVIEW Community? Then come to the 2012 LAVA / OpenG NIWeek Bar-B-Q! Year after year we bring together all your best online (and real-life!) friends from LAVA (LabVIEW Advanced Virtual Architects), OpenG (home of LabVIEW's open source community), and even the leaders in NI LabVIEW R&D. Come enjoy great barbecue with great people away from the hustle & bustle of the convention floor. Menu*: Mesquite BBQ beef brisket, chicken, and pork ribs. Potato salad, pinto beans, and coleslaw, and iced tea. There'll be a cash bar, and they have a great selection of brews. Date: Tuesday, August 7th, 2012, 7:00 PM (after the NIWeek "Block Diagram Party") Location: Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX 78701 Cost: $30 per person How to buy a ticket: Ticket pre-sales closed. See here to buy a ticket at the conference. *Vegetarian food is available on request -- PM Justin here for info. What to Wear: A LAVA T-Shirt, of course! Door Prizes Galore: Everyone is in the running for one of there super door prizes donated by other LAVA members. (You're welcome to offer up a prize too - hint, hint!)

And on behalf of the NI RF Team, once again I'll be offering up a flight around Austin, time weather and schedules permitting. You will get the chance to view our beloved Austin from the air and take the controls of N2817F, a High Performance Cessna Skylane 182. Any training on aviation, RF or PXI along the way is an extra kicker out of the kindness of my own heart.

The handsome, wonderful, smart, humble and handsome administrators and moderators at LabVIEW Advanced Virtual Architects (LAVA) will be giving the first 100 BBQ attendees a free Asynchronous Avatar Advertisers Bumper Sticker! Show your pride in being an essential part of the World's Largest Independant LabVIEW Community! Make fun of colleagues that couldn't make it to NIWeek! Stick it up on your wall! Stick it up on your car! Stick it up on the outside of your laptop! Stick it up on your office door! In fact, you can stick it up wherever you like! Find this prize, and other LAVA awesomeness in the LAVAStore.

Tecnova will be donating 3x Arduino Unos Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Ni also has created a free toolkit for LabVIEW to interface with the Arduino. If you want to see LabVIEW running Arduino in action check out this video from VI Shots.

Rishi Lukka and Ben Zimmer from EnableTC (Enable Training and Consulting Inc) are proud to offer another fabolous door prize for this year's BBQ - a LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Kit! Don't forget to check out EnableTC's NI Week booth demo which includes a fun implementation of LabVIEW and the Mindstorms kit - can't wait to see it!

V I Engineering, Inc. is donating 2 x Microsoft Kinects for Windows, compatible with LabVIEW! Upgrade your test systems to a virtually real* HMI! Track gestures and objects in the room and control your virtual world through the power of Kinect and LabVIEW (you can find out more about communicating with the Microsoft Kinect here and here, and you can download drivers here). *This door prize will not make you look like Tom Cruise. Unless, of course, you already look like Tom Cruise. In that case, sure, let's say that this door prize will make you look like Tom Cruise. Yeah, that sounds pretty good - put that in post. Wait, are you writing that last bit down? No, the "...let's say that this door prize will make you look like Tom Cruise" bit. No, don't put that part in the post - I don't want anyone to think we're actually promissing to make them look like Tom Cruise. I mean, c'mon, they'll never fall for that. Will they? You know what, maybe you're right - put it in there and let's see if anyone falls for it. Wait, why are you still writing?

You can check out the code here. I have also attached some code to calculate the XMODEM CRCs as well as the normal CRC-16.I have also attached the XMODEM-VISA.llb that I used. I am pretty sure this is the same llb referred to in the link I posted but if I recall I added the support for 1K transfers. Calculate CRC-16 (File input).vi Calculate CRC-16.vi Calculate XMODEM CRC-16 (Buffer input).vi Calculate XMODEM CRC-16 (File input).vi Get CRC-16 Table.vi Calculate CRC-16 (Buffer input).vi Xmodem VISA.llb