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

Jordan Van Aalsburg jordan.vanaalsburg at gmail.com
Sun May 18 23:10:17 PDT 2014


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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