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

[Steve Edberg]

This sounds neato; I think I could do Saturday the 7th after 11. I haven't
had a lot of LabView exposure - do you have some suggested sources other
than just generally perusing the VI docs at National Instruments?

Also, do you have any kind of goals for Saturday other than just
developing the SubVI component? Are you thinking in terms of building some
lesson-type plans to present to NI (insert Monty Python reference here)?


On Fri, May 30, 2014 3:07 pm, Graham Ryland wrote:
> Jordan,
>
>
> Quick update, we got the Linkbot to play nice with the myRIO over I2C,
> but we need help with writing the subvi.
>
> Is Saturday June 7th open for a Linkbot/myRIO Hackathon? What's a good
> time?
>
> 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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