Daryl

On the moon landing.vi for about a half hour then I beat it. Now what?

That's cool, thanks for posting this. Cant wait until these things become more mainstream. Wow, I did a multi quote by accident

Could probably play 2 games of Solitaire at once with that thing

I want one of these... http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/231-touchtable.html

You are getting trapped inside that while loop that you have nested in the false case of your "deque" loop. (the one with the DAQ assistant express vi in it.

Done.

I have participated a few times but it got to be a pain so I quit doing it. Best way to minimize risk is to quit doing it

Doh! Snopes.com says False. The first time I searched snopes it didnt come back with anything. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/snubbed.asp

http://current.com/items/90435278_russians-refused-to-shake-obama-s-hand.htm

I hope I didn't come off sounding like some sort of dictator wanna-be in my original post but we have a real issue here that I need to get my hands around somehow (and really no power to do it). There are people using something like "pwr_wdw_down" for an ignition input signal. People make subvi's for no apparent reason. I have tried to get everyone to use SCC but they are too lazy to learn/use it and I'm sure most of you are familiar with what you end up with if you are not well organized. We have many copies of projects all over different drives and no one can say what is the latest version or what the difference between project "AAAA123" and project "AAA123" is. (yes, they keep tacking more A's to the front to get it to the top of a folder when browsing in explorer.) I couldnt tell you what a project or a file is just by looking at the name of it. In some projects, everything is crosslinked to different folders/projects and it is way out of hand. I could go on all day long describing some of these horrors. The real problem is, they took a group of engineers and said - you are now part of an eCAE team responsible for testing, simulation, and rapid prototyping (of ECU modules) These engineers (and I use that term loosley) have no software engineering background and too stubborn to admit they dont know the correct way to do something or ask for help. We use many different softwares including Labview. I have the most experience with Labview and my hope is to at least get this portion of my groups responsibilites in order hoping that it will "rub off" into the other areas and software projects. I need to find one little corner to start in and hope it will spread but its like talking to a wall. Ok, I'm done venting for now.

I would like to settle an issue that has been driving me crazy for a while now - naming conventions. Everyone has their own method around here and I would like to standardize it (or at least get the conversation started about standardizing it) I am talking about Project names, VI names, SubVI, signals, globals, etc. Would anyone like to share or discuss their method? While we are at it, I would like to come up with a standard Labview Project "layout" (at least to be used as a starting point) I'm tired of custom controls, subvi's, etc.. being scattered all over the place in different subfolders that are not intuitive to locate. How do you all organize your files in your project/on disk? I will try to post a screenshot of my current layout and open it up for discussion a little later.

Do you have any real world data or can you collect some from the springs? If so, System Identification Toolit might be a good place to start. http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/13853

Have you tried any of these places? http://theagapecenter.com/Hospitals/Psychiatric.htm

Thanks for starting this thread. Let us know more about the likes/dislikes of Veristand after you have played with it for a while. I'm currently building a PXI based HIL tester and am sort of keeping an eye on Veristand out the corner of my eye. I'd like to know how friendly the user interface is for a high channel count mixed signal system. (analog I/O, Digital I/O, CAN I/O, etc..) This is the one thing I am struggling with on my system right now.

Well, its sure better than using Notepad.

Do scripting. Then come back here and teach me

Never mind, I figured it out.

Can someone point me to an example of loading an .ase file into a 3D Picture control (I'm currently using LV 8.6) thanks.

Alpha, Thanks for posting the Hundred Monkeys Theory. Seems like there is an awful lot of assumptions in this theory, or is it just me?

Hey Alpha, Any updates on string theory, or anything else in YOUR world? I love reading your posts.

That pilot must be at animal level

alpha - what level are you?

No Problemo, enjoy!

Here is an example that I think I downloaded from NI.com a while ago or something. It works good. PWM_Output.vi

Ok so I read some more and it looks like there are 7 levels, is that correct? Most people are animal level? Is that level 1?