As the popularity of modular instruments grows in R&D development spaces, National Instruments technology, particularly Real-Time and FPGA hardware, is becoming more and more common in volume test, manufacturing, and control applications. As the ...
Today, I found myself setting up some simple point-to-point serial communication on a Siemens S7-1200. For the current application, I was writing a simple function block to broadcast data to a Red Lion serial slave display, but there are a varie...
Last month's Geek Challenge asked, "What is the quickest way to get from point A to point B?" And they’re off! Path A, the Line, starts with a commanding advantage, having the shortest distance to travel by taking a...
Jon Carson, Senior Project Engineer What do you like best about working at DMC? The ever changing challenges. I’ve been at DMC for four years, and between technical problems and project challenges, I still have the opportunity to lea...
Friends from Yaskawa joined DMC on a voyage onto Lake Michigan after another great year of working together. Led by Frank, the lake and weather were perfect for a relaxing evening on the water. Our first stop was the Flatwater where we enjoy...
Share NIweek 2012 highlights, discuss features of the newly released LabVIEW 2012, and learn more about TMDS for data storage at the next Chicagoland National Instruments LabVIEW User Group Meeting. You’ll have the opportunity to connect ...
The days have certainly flown by, and, I’m sad to say, NI Week 2012 has run its course. The last day was shorter and leaner than the others, so, unfortunately, none of the sessions really stood out to me. I did learn a little more abo...
The third day of NI Week 2012 proved the age old adage that the third day of a conference is always the best. If you read my first NI Week post, you probably knew that this was coming, and even though there were only 2 sessions that really appealed t...
It’s already day 2 of NI Week 2012, and it feels like things are really moving fast. In the same way, I broke out my goals for NI Week, I’ve been trying to focus each of the 4 days more or less on a specific theme. In light of that, I too...
Recently I had the opportunity to programmatically copy Exchange appointments to a SharePoint calendar. This was done using the Exchange web services API. I found no examples of this procedure online, so I thought I would add my own example. This exa...