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Entries for November 2010

Geek Challenge: Righting the Reindeer

Santa’s reindeer and sleigh in flight are typically drawn nearly horizontally like they would be if standing on the ground.  However,  the lift and thrust comes only from the reindeer.  The sleigh, which is not wing-shaped, ...


Employee Spotlight: John Sullivan

John Sullivan, Systems Engineer  Rose Hulman is highly represented at DMC.  What made you choose DMC? The atmosphere.  The idea of working with such outstandingly smart people was enticing.  By the end of my interv...


LabVIEW DAQmx Assistant VIs

Ever wish you could replicate the NI Measurement and Automation Explorer interfaces in LabVIEW code? You can! Download DMC DAQmx Assistant Tools For years I have been looking for a good implementation of NI MAX that I could encapsulate and thro...


Maintaining Legacy Custom Visual Studio Software

I recently had the experience of working on a Visual Basic.NET 1.1 application that our company created a number of years ago.  This brought the whole issue of maintaining legacy code into sharp focus.  Legacy industrial software could easi...


3D Void Detection System

I recently developed a 3D void detection prototype system for the packaging industry. The system will measure the empty volume inside of a box filled with contents. Once this volume is known, a subsequent system can optimize the number of packing ...


VNC on Siemens WinCC Flex HMI with WinCE

A version of VNC Server is available which works on Siemens MP277 and other Siemens displays that are WinCE 5.0 or higher. The open source project can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/efonvnc/ Steps 1. The MP277 uses the ARM ...