Mark Balla

Maybe we will get a block diagram zoom someday.

But currently I use Zoomit.exe and it works on all programs not just LabVIEW

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx

Tecnova will be donating a Sphero 2.0 Robotic Ball

With prompting from my User Group  I finally got around to building a package  for the icon editor.

Certified May 22 2015

Placed in LabVIEW IDE Category

I came across this in my Google search last week but haven't investigated it any further.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/teamplayer-use-multiple-keyboard-and-mice-on-one-system/

https://dicolab.com/products/teamplayer/

Software that enables multiple users working in the same digital environment. All participants can synchronously interact and control applications and content running there.

With TeamPlayer3 multiple users will be synchronously present on screen, each as an unique cursor.

Even use your personal device to join in a session!

Use any application or any content you are accustomed to with multiple users together. All participants are now able to interact and you can collaborate in any task at hand.

Use mice, keyboards, touch screens, tablets, iPads or smartphones as your control device. Whether locally present or remote connecting from any location.

Unique multi-user software for people-centered collaboration. Extend a desktop to a multi-user session.

The first post of the thread refers to the general location LabVIEW_Videos.

For those that have access to the The CLA  community page the 2015 videos information can be found at 

https://decibel.ni.com/content/thread/27678?tstart=0

All the the CLA 2014 videos are now available in the general NI week folder. Information is on the first post of this thread.

To address the You Tube issue.

When distributing the videos I want to put a priority on the presenters first and the consumers second.

The presenters have created the content for a LabVIEW audience in a LabVIEW context and I have been reluctant to expand the audience beyond this.

The majority of people that view the videos receive them from LabVIEW community context (Lava link, CLA link, coworker recomendation ....).

I feel this context maintains a certain expectations that may not apply outside of the LabVIEW community.

Placing the videos on youtube where they are searchable and view-able by anyone could easily remove the content from the context.

I feel this could expose the presenter to more intense scrutiny. I personally do not feel comfortable being a facilitator at this level without more express permission from the presenter.

I've discussed this over with my management and  we currently are not willing to facilitate more than the ftp site at this time.

This policy is not set in stone and we are open to other's perspective.  

I would like to hear others opinions and comments especially from those who have presented or are thinking about presenting in the future.

Mark

Certified 2-28-15 Placed in General Category

Certified 9-13-2014

Placed in Database & File IO

Thanks Thomas,

Could you post the vi to this thread I'm not able to get the VI Snipit to work

Mark

I was having problems also but I figured it out.

I needed to install the command line client tools that are unchecked by default.

We been using Tortoise SVN for a while and I am familiar with the process but now need to do some simple automation.

I am trying to create a simple tool that reads the SVN version of a folder and matches it to a number in a document.

Does anyone have experience finding the SVN version number or know of a good resource link.

Mark 

Hi all,

 

I am going to take my CLD exam on 06/09 .  1st, here are my sample exams solutions.

They all seem to work very well , but not the ATM.

About the traffic light I have done it with 2 types of timers one with a timer I made by using get date /time in Seconds and the other one with the elapsed time express VIs. They are identicall, I just replaced the get date time timer with the elapsed time express Vi.

The 1st one works perfectly.  The 2nd one works until it comesback to initialise after the 1st round then it fails to reset although I am explicitly setting it to rest in the initialisation state.

This one reason I don't trust the  elapsed time express VI.  I'd rather spend time making my own timer than be dodged by the peculiarity of the  elapsed time express VI.

Can anyone explain to me what I am doing wrong when using the the  elapsed time express VI. 

 

Many thanks to all of you who help.

Those who don't ask questions don't learn.  Those who learn will always ask questions.

The difference in the timers is the Express vi timer is re-entrant and your timer is not.

Because the express vi is re-entrant every instance creates a separate elapse timer.

With all of them set to auto reset each state is tracking its own separate end time.

To get this to work you would need to delete all the timers and bring a single elapse timer outside the case structure and have it's outputs feed each case.

Your timer is a non-re-entrant functional global so all of the cases are using the same stored start and end time.

Mark

Try the example "Extract Numbers with Match Pattern.vi"

Under the Menu items Help>>Find Examples... 

Hi SiBenApril04

I've only glanced at your code so I don't have any advice yet.

I did notice you had trouble with the ATM Example.

Our Chicago User Group is focusing on the ATM problem this year and setting aside time each meeting to have users show their solutions.

How the solution is implemented is totally up to the presenter and not bound by any CLD or other requirements.

Our focus is to show many example solutions to the same problems coded by users of different experience levels.

You might find it useful to look at all the different solutions we came up with and pick the techniques that best fit your style.

The solutions can be found on our community page  

We are meeting this week and on the 25th of October so other solutions will be added in the next few days and weeks.

Mark

I had these 2 links concerning re-factoring in my archive

http://labviewguy.com/refactoring/

http://www.ieee.li/pdf/viewgraphs/refactoring_labview_code.pdf

They help break it down into parts to think through but I've not found any silver bullet when it comes to re-factoring.

I always seem to have lots of backups and forced to do lots of testing. Commiting often to Source code control was a big help in my last re-factoring project.

Mark

[Cross Post] http://forums.ni.com/t5/Machine-Vision/Need-to-replace-a-pci-1405-frame-grabber-with-a-more-modern/td-p/2958217

We implemented a application 4 years ago that uses 55 analog NTSC cameras connected to a 64:1 video Mux: The mux output channel is routed to a pci-1405 framgraber. The 1405 has stopped acquiring images and needs to be replaced.

Since NI has obsoleted all analog frame grabbers and no longer supports them we would like to move to a digital solution.

We are willing to update the software and computer hardware but are unable to change the cameras and Mux at this time.

I am looking for a converter that will take the NTSC signal from the Mux and convert it to a digital imaging signal compatable with Imaq or Imaqdx.

Does anyone have any recomendations on a good converter or any other advice.

Thanks

Mark

For those that have already downloaded all the 2014 videos I have recently added

14-8-11_06_Norman Kirchner_HALitosis Quit writing Abstraction Layers that Stink.avi

Apparently I missed it in my mad scramble to get the videos compressed and uploaded.

Also now that the server traffic has gone down slightly I've returned the 2012 and 2013 videos to the LabVIEW_Videos folder.

Mark 

Absolutely Fabulous?

She is a wonderful collection of social awesomeness! 

Hanging out with you guys made NI Week that much more fun.

I finally found a use for all those ribbons I have been collecting over the years. 

Mark

Thanks Jeffery,

I've fixed the issue

Mark

Certified 7-21-14

Placed in LabVIEW IDE category