[dms-discuss] Project Idea: National Instruments & Linkbot

[Graham Ryland]

Jordan,

That sounds great!

Does Saturday June 7th sound good for working together to hack together a
myRIO+Linkbot prototype controlled by LabView?

Thanks,
Graham


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Jordan Van Aalsburg <
jordan.vanaalsburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry I'm late to this discussion. This seems like it would make a great
> hack-a-thon (code-a-rama) project. We have one scheduled for Saturday to
> work on the inventory system, but if there is interest we could hold
> another one in the following week(s).
>
> Graham: Could someone from Barobo attend the event (usually Saturday
> mornings) and give a crash course on programming your platform? I think
> that would help kick things off.
>
> -Jordan
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Graham Ryland <gryland at barobo.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Steve!
>>
>> NI just sent us a myRIO with some software and cables. We're trying to
>> show NI that the Linkbot is a valuable addition to the myRIO hardware
>> ecosystem. There are two immediate hurdles that I can see. The first is
>> data communication. The myRIO has a USB port that could potentially connect
>> to the Linkbot, but more likely you'd just connect over I2C. Second is
>> writing some kind of SubVI that exposes Linkbot functionality in LabView.
>>
>> What do you think?
>> Graham
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Steve Edberg <edberg at edberg-online.com>wrote:
>>
>>> This looks pretty neat to me -
>>>
>>>    http://www.ni.com/myrio/what-is/
>>>
>>> - so I'm interested! Can you summarize what stuff they sent you? Do you
>>> have any ideas about what you might want to do? What's the time frame for
>>> this? Am I asking too many questions? How soon is now? Perhaps a meeting
>>> sometime at the space or other establishment might be in order...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 3:16 pm, Graham Ryland wrote:
>>> > Dear Makers,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > This is Graham from your friendly robot neighbor Barobo. I dropped by
>>> > this afternoon and Emily suggest I email you about a cool project idea.
>>> > We're
>>> > talking to National Instruments about a partnership and they sent us
>>> some
>>> > hardware called the myRIO to control our Linkbots with. I was wondering
>>> > if you're group was interested in helping us put together some demos
>>> for
>>> > how these could be used together that would wow NI. Let me know if
>>> this is
>>> >  something you're interested in.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Graham
>>> > Graham Ryland
>>> > CEO, Barobo, Inc.
>>> > gryland at barobo.com 530-231-5178
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