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Super cool!

I've been looking for some ideas for all NXT bricks we've got sitting around here. (...I'm pretty sure most of them still work)

I thought about a Rube Goldburg-ish crazy coffee roaster, grinder, brewer. ( I love my java! ) But then the boss got a superdooper machine for the office. It doesn't roast.....but I'm not sure everyone would appreciate that. Considering I like a very dark roast, I think the smoke in the hall might become a problem.

Maybe some kinda battle bots that are supposed to have pieces fly off etc? Lego pieces only....and no glue! See how tough you can build one.

I've used Minjet's Mind Manager a few times. My boss really likes it. (...don't know whether to keep calling him "new" boss or not)

I really like Visio myself. Doesn't need to be a newer version either. Just give me "Technical 5" and it has everything I need.

For notes, I tend to keep one text file for every project that acts as a kind of "twitter" to myself. I just hit the F5 key before I type, and I get a time stamp that helps me keep track of things.

Since this are my notes only, I don't worry about what I put in them. Being very candid in those notes has actually helped me when revisiting a project at a much later date.

Well put. An old physics professor of mine once said "there is no bad data, just bad interpretations". I totally agree that if scientists are found willingly changing data then they need to be hung, drawn and quartered. The problem is that (for the most part) a lot of the data is in formats that is difficult, if not impossible, for the general public to digest - that's when "commentators" come in to play, and try to interpret the data - sometimes to their own end

This reminds me of an interesting radio program I was listening to the other night. It seems that Canada has named a Pfizer exec to the board that funds health research. It's 'like having big bad wolf directing 3 little pigs'

Some see a very obvious conflict of interest here. Others....apparently don't.

That's actually pretty good, although it lead me to this:

Hmm...need to make a LabVIEW auto-tune program.

For those that do participate in the beta, how do you minimize risk to your projects while still adequately testing Labview's new beta functions?

I've participated in a couple of betas. Typically I'll only install the LV beta on my home PC. Although now that I have a shiny new laptop with a BIG hard drive, I've got it all chopped up into slices for different operating systems. This way even if I do install on my work machine, I'm not risking my current installations of LabVIEW.

Thanks for the heads-up!

I notice this is to fix a bug that pops up when using Windows Mandatory Profiles. I wonder if one isn't using WMPs, if it's still suggested to run the patch?

How did you download and/or open it? I just tried myself to download the file in Firefox 3.5 and open it with Alzip 7 and had not trouble to extract the files.

Rolf Kalbermater

Hi Rolf,

I just tried downloading and unzipping. 7-Zip reports that the file is "not a supported archive". Usually 7-Zip is like a Swiss Army Knife and can handle just about anything.

Also just tried the built in tool in XP. It reported that there were no files to extract.

Hi All,

I built a software that comunicate wiht electronic system by visa drivers: it work good if I use it with rs232-usb converter but, work bad if I use it direct with the rs232 pc port. Can anyone tell me why?

Hi Spaghetti,

I like the name.

On most computers I've used, a USB to Serial device will be issued it's own Port. So if you've already got a Serial Port on your PC, your USB to Serial device will be operating on a different one.

So, the same code won't work for both. You'll need to change the port to match which one your device is plugged into.

How many people here have dreamt about debugging code all night, then woke up feeling like you just got home from work?

If I get really stuck on something, I rarely let it go once I get home. Sometimes I'll be just thinking about it as I'm doing other thing. But more often than not, I'll fire up my computer at home and start trying things. Since I'm not on the clock, I can try things the way I want to. Often, I'll come up with a solution before I even go to bed.

Hi,

I think a simple Problem, but I can´t find a simple solution ! I have a Picture and want to trim away the frame outside my ROI. Does anyone have an idea how to handle this ?

Not sure if this is answering the "right" question. But there's a post on NI's board discussing something possibly similar.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=200&message.id=6314#M6314

Someone else has posted code for cropping an image around a "hole". You could probably find something useful there.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=200&message.id=18024#M18024

Whooo Hooo, it came through!!

Congrats!

Now you can show up to NI WEEK a day early and get in on all the Super Secret Stuff!

Hi,

Since LabVIEW does not have Database connectivity toolkit for linux. Is it possible to communicate with MySQL database? If yes can some1 explain/illustrate how?

There's a tookit here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sql-lv/

But haven't used it myself.

We like to mix it up

My only real complaint with last year's BBQ was that they closed up shop a little too early. But I still have just a little bit of their BBQ rub left. That's some good stuff!

Sadly I'm going to have to miss this year's BBQ as well as NI Week. I think our local NI office is sending a lot few employees down this year as well.

Fortunately we've landed some good projects now and there's at least a chance that I'll be back again next year. Hopefully my absence and subsequent drop in alcohol sales won't put any of the good places out of business this year.

...and we've missed you! Didn't you have a avatar with the rockin' hand of God coming out of the clouds? Or is that someone esle I'm thinking of...

Aw shucks.

That was the avatar I had before. Something I clipped out of a Sinfest strip.

...guess I'll have to come up with another one.

I guess I could be called a Lurker here. Haven't had a whole lot to post in awhile. But I've been here a good while and love reading my daily RSS.

QUOTE (crelf @ Feb 8 2009, 03:17 PM)

Then you're going to love it even more when you find out that you can (and arguable should) do all those good things in the project:

Interesting. I'm curious what the advantages are in adding tasks this way as opposed to using MAX.

QUOTE (ejensen @ Feb 4 2009, 03:09 PM)

EDIT: I've investigated a bit more. I only received the error if there were DLLs left in the destination directory. The other files were overwritten as I would expect. If I leave the classes as LLBs instead of renaming as DLLs, the files overwrite normally and I do not get the error. It seems it doesn't like overwriting DLLs specifically, or perhaps just LLBs pretending to be DLLs. I know the workaround now, but I still find this behavior odd.

Is it possible that your OS is setting those files as "Read Only" or something?

Great video Ben!

Yup. Same thing here too. Tab Controls from VIs made in Windows display this way too. I'm just not sure if it's the OS or *my* OS.

QUOTE (crelf @ Jan 25 2009, 08:53 PM)

What the? Can you upload the VI? I wonder if it's a screen redraw issue - if you minimize and the restore the window, do they go away?

They don't go away.

I've noticed these dark lines in my tab controls in Linux. There are a couple of colours that seem to hide the lines completely. But most don't.

I'm curious if anyone else has noticed this. Is there any workaround?

Used to be the typical resolution of most PCs at our shop was 1024x768

Now most PCs are 1280x1024 or higher. So we've I guess "standardized" at that resolution. (Although I'm still at 10x7 on my laptop because I haven't managed to kill it yet)

Congrats Norm!

Hi there,

I did a quick search on NI's website and found one entry on the forums from an NI Applications Engineer.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...uireLogin=False

Looks like it may be a little while before this level of cross platforming comes to LabVIEW.

QUOTE (Ben Zimmer @ Oct 28 2008, 11:00 AM)

Heiko,

I did get some info from Karen at FIRST Robotics Canada (listed here: http://www.firstroboticscanada.org/site/contact) but I actually got hooked up with my team (White Oaks in Oakville) by calling the school directly.

I looked into the teams in Oakville a couple of months ago. (Used to live just down the road from Appleby College) The presentation at NI Week got me pretty fired up to get involved.

Unfortunately some pretty big projects came up at work and I didn't feel I'd be able to commit the time required for this round. Hopefully I'll be able to get involved at some point though.