Post Your Desktops the "Willie will give you bananas if you do eet" Edition

You're a labview developer? Sweeet! I'm going up to NI week this year.

In this case it's a fairly simple compactRIO application that monitors a few hundred thermistors and if they get to a certain temperature it trips a relay.
 
No Limit said:
You're a labview developer? Sweeet! I'm going up to NI week this year.

In this case it's a fairly simple compactRIO application that monitors a few hundred thermistors and if they get to a certain temperature it trips a relay.
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Nice! NI week sounds like a lot of fun.

Eh, I wouldn't consider myself a true LabView developer, I have only taken some introductory courses. That program is pretty interesting, are you designing this program for the conference?
 
No, this is for a project with a national lab. Thankfully I don't have to present anything at NI week this year. They made me do that a couple years ago and I absolutely hate doing any kind of public speaking, let alone public speaking in front of that many people.

Did you do the courses just for fun or was it work related?
 
I'll be Labviewing over the summer for a college project.
 
No Limit said:
No, this is for a project with a national lab. Thankfully I don't have to present anything at NI week this year. They made me do that a couple years ago and I absolutely hate doing any kind of public speaking, let alone public speaking in front of that many people.

Did you do the courses just for fun or was it work related?
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The courses were required for engineering. LabView was pretty cool but it was weird though going from C++ to LabView, it was like a programming language made up of pictures.
 
ríomhaire said:
I'll be Labviewing over the summer for a college project.
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I think you will enjoy it. Alot of people coming from a textual programming background tend to hate it, but I think in many cases it has to do with a superiority complex about textual programming being the hard way to do it (therefore it must be the right way). There are certainly applications where textual programming makes more sense but that in no way takes away from how powerful LabVIEW is.

I was raised on textual programming, but I still love LabVIEW. You can have basic programs done in minutes which would otherwise take you hours to do in C or something similar. Not to mention all the options you have available to you right out of the box when it comes to data acquisition. Wether you want to read a serial port, communicate over ethernet, get data from the PCI bus, or get analog data from a sensor chances are there is a simple subVI you can drop in to your block diagram and you are set to go.

My biggest complaint about it is the cost of the license. We are lucky enough to be NI partners so we get all this for a small annual fee, without it the modules that we need would cost us over $10K per seat for the entire package. Which would be out of our budget.

By far my favorite thing is their recent advances in their webservices. If you know Javascript you can do some really amazing things right through the web browser.

LibDem said:
The courses were required for engineering. LabView was pretty cool but it was weird though going from C++ to LabView, it was like a programming language made up of pictures.
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Yeah, I found it very weird at first as well. But once you got used to it it made alot of sense. If you think about your C++ programs and break them down to block diagrams they would look almost exactly like a labVIEW program. Which I believe was the original idea behind labview. All these engineers were making block diagrams of what they wanted their programmers to do, so it made sense to have a programming language that was based around those block diagrams.
 
Yeah I really liked how easy it is to drop a subVI into your program, which saves a ton of time and is my favorite feature of LabVIEW. I agree, LabVIEW is great for working with sensors, or any external hardware in general and it's sometimes is easy to code a program in LabVEIW than compared to C++. I still prefer textual based programming though because it's easy for me to visualize in my head what's going on, despite the fact that LabVIEW has pictures.
 
Yeah, it's really a matter of personal preference and what you are used to.

But I think the logic between C and LabVIEW is extremely similar.

Take:

Code: 
double var1 = 1;

while(TRUE)
{
	if(var1 === 1)
	{
		function1(5);
	}
}

int function1(some_var)
{
	#Some Code Here
}

It's exactly the same as:

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What in the christ**** are you people talking about, post yer goddamn desktops.

hyiJW.jpg
 
No Limit said:
Yeah, it's really a matter of personal preference and what you are used to.

But I think the logic between C and LabVIEW is extremely similar.

Take:

Code: 
double var1 = 1;

while(TRUE)
{
	if(var1 === 1)
	{
		function1(5);
	}
}

int function1(some_var)
{
	#Some Code Here
}

It's exactly the same as:
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Ah, I didn't see that you could do text based programming in LabVIEW. We were taught to only to use the integrated functions as seen in picture 2.
 
I dont mean you can write that in LabVIEW. I just mean the logic is exactly the same. So if you take that text code you can do the exact same thing using labview as in the image. So the logic is identical, the representation is different.

But yeah, sorry to hijack the thread. :/
 
No Limit said:
I dont mean you can write that in LabVIEW. I just mean the logic is exactly the same. So if you take that text code you can do the exact same thing using labview as in the image. So the logic is identical, the representation is different.

But yeah, sorry to hijack the thread. :/
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Whoops lol must have misread what you were saying. Yeah the logic is identical you're right.
 
I've used Labview before, or rather I've done a course on it for college which involved building very slightly more complicated circuits every week and running basically the same Labview loop on each of them to print out graphs with slight changes every week until the point where I wasn't really sure what each individual part did any more and could not fix it when I encountered errors.

Good times.

For the summer I'm supposed to be building a spectrometer that measures the amount of NO2 in the air and using Labview to control it.

xiWW0.jpg
 
And you said the artificial coloring in my image was painful. That fractal shit makes my eyes feel like they're about to bleed.
 
Not really the Stark colors, but I like it anyways. I'm about to change this though since i've had it awhile now. Also need to tidy up a bit.
 
The official POTC wallpapers sucked so I made my own.

desktopycf.jpg
 
****ing Sudan. The map on my desktop is out of date now and I need to get a new one :angry:
 
A planetary system with 5 stars... You don't see that every day.
 
Trying out Rainmeter. I haven't set up everything still but it looks pretty great.
raindesktop.jpg


A special treat that I couldn't pass up
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