Green Engineering - Blue Engineers!

[John Lokanis]

Frozen blue, that is...

I know I was warned by some posts before NI Week, but I was not prepared for how friggin cold it was in the convention center. Since NI was promoting green engineering, you would think they would try to walk the walk and ask the facility people to set the temp a bit higher! What a waste of power to keep us at 65deg while it was over 100 outside!

I thought it was extra poignant that the USA Today outside my hotel room door on Thursday had this article in it:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/20...nce-rooms_N.htm

Made for an interesting read on the flight home.

Anyhow, maybe we can start a petition to NI to have a reasonable temp setting next year. That would be a good first step toward real green engineering.

(it was also funny that one of the keynotes included an HVAC expert who used LV to improve AC systems! Let's get this guy a contract to fix the Austin convention center's system.)

Otherwise, it was a good first NI Week for me! Hope to see many of you there next year.

-John

[xtal]

I'm with you all the way. I still have a sore throat and sniffles after being so cold in the convention center. And this time I had two sweaters on at all times. I come from a climate where we don't need air conditioners and am so thankful to be home.

[crelf]

QUOTE (xtaldaz @ Aug 12 2008, 07:26 PM)

...I had two sweaters on at all times.

Except when you were at the bar on Wednesday night

[Jim Kring]

A cold convention center provides half of the comedic material for the keynotes (the other half being how hot Austin is in August). Without that, NI will have to hire some better writers. Hmmm.... sounds like a great idea to me

PS - I'm mostly joking. I did like the engineering mind videos.

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

It was actually warmer during NIWeek with the extra 2500 people around. The previous Friday and Saturday with just the NI crew around it was downright freezing.

I hope they setup a distributed temperature and humidity monitoring system next year using the new WiFi DAQ hardware.

[John Lokanis]

QUOTE (LV_FPGA_SE @ Aug 12 2008, 07:42 PM)

I hope they setup a distributed temperature and humidity monitoring system next year using the new http://www.ni.com/dataacquisition/wifi/' target="_blank">WiFi DAQ hardware.

That is a great idea! They could have a realtime display on the floor showing just how cold it is in each room so you know what to expect at your upcoming sessions...

Maybe the promo item next year should be a fleese instead of a backback...

[Yair]

I worked on an application which involved measuring temperatures (among other things). During the development and testing phase, the programmer who worked on the connection with the instruments (who used to wear a leather jacket all the time) hooked up a few sensors to test the system. Showing the resulting graph (around 20C\68F) to his boss didn't help and now he works elsewhere. :laugh: