VI Shots LabVIEW Audio Podcast
By Michael Aivaliotis
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Podcast Description
The VI Shots audio podcast is published every two weeks. Your host, Michael Aivaliotis, presents interviews and discussions with prominent members of the LabVIEW ecosystem. Michael also answers LabVIEW questions. Call toll-free 1-888-788-5778 and leave a voice message with your LabVIEW question and it will be answered on the air. You can also leave us email feedback and questions at: feedback@vishots.com
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Clean014 VISP – Waterloo Labs Interns Work on Awesome Projects | I’m very excited today to bring you an interview I did last year at NIWeek 2011. I sat down with a group of engineering interns at National Instruments. Now these intern positions were not typical. Hunter Smith and Ben James who managed this group of students, gave them the flexibility to do whatever project they wanted, as long as it was extremely awesome. How’s that for some parameters to work within? This group within NI is called Waterloo Labs, and I had a great time talking with them. It’s feels great to see so much excitement in engineering. Some of the projects that have come out of Waterloo Labs is an iPhone controlled vehicle, an Eyeball powered super mario game, a Kinect powered etch-a-scetch. One of the coolest projects so far, I think is something they go in great detail in this interview. Here are links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: Waterloo Labs Youtube Channel Facebook Page Twitter | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean013 VISP Running a Successful LabVIEW based Business – Interview With Sixclear | I had the pleasure of talking with Brian Spears and Jassem Shahrani of Sixclear on today's podcast. I had a great time talking about how they got started running their successful business which has LabVIEW as its core. Powered by LabVIEW, if you will. In addition to getting some insights into how they work and collaborate, they also made a huge announcement on the show of a new product they are really excited about unleashing onto the LabVIEW community. Take a listen to find out what it is. *Keep listening after the closing title of the podcast and listen to some bonus content* Here are links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: Sixclear website VI High Video Blog Sixclear on Twitter Sixclear on Facebook (go friend them) | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean012 VISP Get involved in the LabVIEW Coding Challenge | A quick podcast interview with Hassan Atassi, who is managing the latest LabVIEW Coding Challenge for the Winter of 2011. Listen to the podcast and find out what the two different challenges are and how you can get involved. The winner gets a sweet Sony Cyber-shot HX9V Digital Camera ($300). Some Deadlines to be aware of: Dec 1st 9:00am CT: Challenge descriptions become available Dec 19th 9:00am CT: Submissions accepted & voting for User Interface Challenge begins January 11th 11:59pm CT: Deadline for submissions January 13th 5:00pm CT: Voting ends & winners announced Here are links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: LabVIEW 2011 Winter Coding Challenge - Instructions | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean011 VISP NI Field Architects Interview | I'm back from a very long absence. I've been very busy on various projects so I apologize for leaving you with such a huge gap. However, now I'm back and starting the flow of new audio podcast episodes and soon, new videos. In this episode of the VI Shots podcast, I interview the three members of the recently formed Field Architects group at NI. Nancy Hollenback, Brian Powell and Charlie Knapp. From their blog: We are a small, elite group of LabVIEW experts working in large accounts and helping engineers become more proficient in LabVIEW. We guide software architectures, develop technical leaders, and teach and encourage good software engineering. Take a listen to this episode to gain some insight as to how this group of experts is expanding LabVIEW proficiency among large development teams by promoting good software engineering tools and practices. Here are links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: LabVIEW Journal Blog - Blog of the NI Field Architects LabVIEW Large apps Community LabVIEW Unit Test Framework VI Tester LAVA | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean010 VISP What’s New in LabVIEW 2011 | I've reached the 10th podcast episode! That's a big milestone for VI Shots. Another big milestone is the 25th anniversary of LabVIEW and the release of LabVIEW 2011. To get the rundown of all the new features, I asked Jeffrey Philipps from National Instruments to join me in this podcast episode. Do you know why the new controls palette was named Silver? Listen to find out. In addition to the new version of LabVIEW, we discuss the NIWeek 2011 keynotes and the "what's new in LabVIEW" session. Here's a hit list of some of the cool new stuff: Improved Stability New Silver Controls Palette Improved Real-Time Deployment New Math and Signal Processing Functions Application Builder API Asynchronous Call by Reference Improved Create SubVI functionality Create Type Definition from Block Diagram Find Add-Ons link in the Getting Started window I will be selecting some of these new features for a future VI Shots tutorial. Post in the comments, which one you would like to see me do a tutorial on? | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean009 VISP Getting Ready for NIWeek 2011 | In this episode of the VI Shots podcast, I invited three members of the LabVIEW community to talk about how to get the most out of NIWeek 2011. I have Darren Natinger from National Instruments, Christopher Relf from VI Engineering and Justin Goeres from JKI. There are a lot of things to see at NIWeek and we cover some of the technical sessions you can attend and how to get the most out of this year's technology conference if this is your first time or even if you've been there before. I will be at NIWeek this year, so feel free to come up to me and say hello. Most of the time I will be hanging out at the JKI booth on the expo floor. I will also be attending the LAVA OpenG BBQ and will be on a discussion panel called We are the Champions (Tues. Aug 2, 2:15–3:15 p.m. - room 10C). Here are more links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: LAVA OpenG Barbecue NIWeek 2011 Program Schedule - This is the complete conference program guide as a PDF. You can search the document by speaker or company name VI Shots tip: After the closing music, keep listening for some extra content. | 7/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean008 VISP Using LabVIEW FPGA on Wall Street | In this episode of the VI Shots podcast I sit down with Terry Stratoudakis who is the CEO of Wall Street FPGA. A company that specializes in the acceleration of trading and financial analytics software using LabVIEW FPGA. This is a new industry in general for LabVIEW and specifically LabVIEW FPGA. I was skeptical at first and a little confused. Where exactly are FPGAs used here? No worries, Terry explains it all to us. By the end of the interview, I was all fired up to find other untapped industries where I could use LabVIEW FPGA. There is a lot of information packed in this podcast episode so you might want to listen to it more than once. PS: Terry will be at NIWeek this year giving an unrelated presentation (TS3261-The Missing Link - 8/3/11 1:00 PM - Rm: 10C). So track him down if you're there. Here are more links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: Wall Street FPGA LinkedIn Group LabVIEW in Finance ni.com Community Group Follow Wall Street FPGA on Twitter VI Shots tip: After the closing music, keep listening for some extra content. | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean007 VISP Interview with the Developer of the LabVIEW Interface for Arduino | In this episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW podcast I chat with Sam Kristoff and Ben James from National Instruments. Sam was responsible for most of the development in the LabVIEW interface for Arduino toolkit that was released a few weeks ago. I mention in the interview that I was having problems getting LabVIEW to communicate with the arduino under Mac OS. Since then I have resolved my issue. It turns out I was using the wrong port. The VISA serial port listings under Mac are not very descriptive and what I thought was the USB port was actually the Bluetooth. I've recorded a detailed video tutorial on how to get started with the toolkit which you can find here. Here are links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: Community Support home for the LabVIEW Interface for Arduino Download the toolkit from the LabVIEW Tools Network Cool Projects built with the toolkit on the NI Arduino Blog | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean006 VISP Mentoring a FIRST Robotics Team | In this episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW podcast I chat with Crystal Drumheller from W.L.Gore and Associates in Flagstaff Arizona and Justin Goeres from JKI. Before Crystal worked for her current employer, she worked for National Instruments. That's where she got the LabVIEW bug and hasn't looked back. Both Crystal and Justin mentor FIRST Robotics teams and they both participated with their teams in the FIRST championship in St. Louis, Missouri this past April. Have you ever wondered about being a mentor for a local FIRST robotics team? Listen to this podcast to find out first hand from these mentors. Also, listen to find out how Justin ended up with a bloody head wound during the championship. Here are links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: Crystal's Team 2486 Justin's Team 3459 Find a local FIRST team to mentor | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean005 VISP Peter Kovacs – Code Madness Winner | Several weeks ago, National Instruments hosted an online coding challenge called: Code Madness 2011. In this episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW Podcast, my guests are Grant Heimbach who organized the challenge and Peter Kovacs who was the winner. Peter wrote some awesome code that scans through the NI Community site and returns all the documents available from various categories and groups. Take a listen to see how the code he wrote led to an opportunity for a spin-off product which Peter is working on releasing to the LabVIEW Tools Network. Here are links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: Peter's winning entry Windows Baloon Prompt using .NET Constuctors LabVIEW IP Spark | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean004 VISP LabVIEW Quickdrop with Darren | In this episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW podcast, I have Darren Nattinger of National Instruments back to chat about his favorite feature of LabVIEW - Quickdrop. Darren is not new to this podcast. I had him on the show back in episode 002 where he gave us some interesting insight to his background and his unique role at NI. Did you know that Quickdrop was written using LabVIEW? It's true, which would makes sense since Darren programs exclusively in G. There are also several other interesting and useful tips Darren lays down in this episode, including ways on how to make using quickdrop even faster with Quickdrop shortcuts. Something that was discussed in the show are Quickdrop plugins. Since 2009, there are a few plugins that ship with LabVIEW. My favorite is the one that moves control labels on the diagram from above to the sides using . Here are the links to items mentioned in this episode: Quickdrop Overview Quickdrop Enthusiasts Community Quickdrop ini tokens | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean003 VISP Justin Goeres – CLA Summit | In this 3rd episode of the VI Shots LabVIEW podcast. I sat down with Justin Goeres and we chatted about the NI 2011 CLA (Certified LabVIEW Architect) summit, we both attended, which happened in Austin March 7-8. Justin gives us a run down of all the reasons why you should be attending next year if you are a CLA. I also play a funny clip of Justin discovering an event structure "bug" that caught him and others at the CLA summit by surprise. I ask Justin about how he got his start in LabVIEW and how he almost became a PLC programmer! We also find out what Popcorn, Twitter and LabVIEW have in common. Here are links to items mentioned in this podcast episode: CLA Community on ni.com LAVA Discussion on Justin's Event Structure bug (video). Popcorn Tweets video JKI State Machine As always, discussion is encouraged. Please leave a comment on our site or send an email to feedback@vishots.com | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean002 VISP Interview With Darren Nattinger | In this episode of VI Shots we sit down with Darren Nattinger of National Instruments to see why he is known as the fastest LabVIEW developer around. Darren is a senior software engineer and a Certified LabVIEW Architect and among the few people at National Instruments who codes in G. He shares some of his tips and tricks with us so we can be just as fast. You can find Darren posting on his blog, or writing up a weekly nugget. Here are some other links mentioned in this episode: Include LabVIEW Version Number in Application Icon (LabVIEW Feature Suggestion) Diagram Cleanup Feedback Group Darren's Weekly Nugget 02/08/2010 (16x16 glyphs that ship with LabVIEW) | 3/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean001 VISP Interview With Ben Zimmer | In this (our first!) episode of the VI Shots podcast, we chat with Ben Zimmer of Enable training and Consulting. We discuss how he started using LabVIEW and how he’s built a growing business around providing training materials. He also talks about his interesting journey as a mentor to FIRST robotics teams and how that has crossed paths with his business interests. We also get some tips on the best way to learn LabVIEW. | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Great LabVIEW info!
These are well-produced podcasts with interesting info about LabVIEW and the LabVIEW community!
A much needed podcast series done extremely well!
There aren't many podcasts out there that deal with LabVIEW, so you might think that Michael could get away with doing a so-so job. He clearly chooses not to. I've listened to all the podcasts and they are an excellent resource to know of up and coming trends in the LabVIEW community. Michael is a skilled interviewer, his questions always tease out interesting points and his interaction with the guests is genuine and pleasing to listen to. Keep it up Michael!
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