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As many of you may know, we used last week’s Oktoberfest party as an unofficial house warming party for our new office space. In addition to having a great turnout despite uncooperative weather, the Kinect Demo team from FedEx Day 2010 put in s...
Recently DMC developed a high speed vision inspection system using LabVIEW. This system inspects many different parts and each part requires different inspection criteria, so we needed to develop a user interface (UI) that could be used to configure ...
I learned a new trick this morning that made my day. It not only managed to save me quite a bit of time, but it also opened up a brave new world full of possibilities for the future!
Ok, so it's not really a trick. And chances are ma...
Our first experience with the .NET Micro Framework (NETMF) was on GHI Electronic's Embedded Master platform, using the .NET Micro Framework 3.0. We recently had an opportunity to use the GHI's next generation replacement for the Embedde...
On a recent project with LabVIEW, I was tasked with integrating a C# DLL into a LabVIEW application. The integration worked quite well and allowed us to integrate client generated code with the exising LabVIEW application.
As the application has e...
It is often desired to have "occasionally connected" applications where a device may not always be connected to a network and that makes the task of maintaining a central data store such as SQL Server 2008R2 consistent across...
Source Code Control (SCC) is universally acknowledged by developers as an important part of developing and maintaining projects. Effective use of takes discipline because what is not checked into the repository is not saved. Opening ...
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...
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 ...
Recently I was working on a project using several threads in C#. I had four threads; one for the Main UI, one for serial communication with some force sensors, one operating a motion controller, and the final one used to perform user defined scripts....