Dan Freve

09/04/2009

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It is well-known that increasing the number of pins on an integrated circuit (IC) increases its cost. To reduce the number of pins, several serial protocols have been developed to transfer data between IC's. One such protocol, I2C, uses only 2 bi...

Ken Brey

09/03/2009

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I have been working on a 3D vision application using the SICK Ranger camera. My application involves precision measurement, so I want to get the best results possible from the equipment. The Ranger came with a Fujinon 35mm lens which focused shar...

Matt Puskala

09/03/2009

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We are happy to announce a new section of our website has gone live: DMC White Papers! We have planned on adding this section ever since we revamped our website four months ago. At this point in time we have two white papers. First there is Ken Br...

Matt Puskala

09/02/2009

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Author's Notes: This blog is from my undergraduate Senior Thesis Project at Kettering University (formerly GMI Engineering and Management Institute) published in early 2002. This thesis received "Passed with Distinct...

Danny Budzinski

09/02/2009

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For a DMC engineer it is not atypical to be faced with outdated, legacy technology. Maybe a customer has come to us to upgrade a system that an intern did in the 90's; maybe a company's engineers have built up a system over the past decade an...

Ken Brey

09/01/2009

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Earlier in 2009, Microsoft declared the old FlexGrid control that came with VB6 a security threat. A security patch banned its use. FlexGrid was an ActiveX control that was commonly distributed with many applications including Office. It has been ...

Tim Jager

08/26/2009

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Nobody loves catchy numeric buzzwords as much as me. I - E - C - Six - Eleven - Thirty - One - Dash - Three.... It just rolls off the tongue! OK I admit, it's a mouthful, but trust me it's worth knowing about. This is a brief intro to IEC6...

Frank Riordan

08/24/2009

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Building relationships & rapport - the final of five entries on DMC's Customer Service Fundamentals. Like all of our customer service fundamentals, this one is quite basic and it almost is self-defining in its importance. Who would argue a...

Matt Puskala

08/24/2009

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When DMC launched our new website a few months ago, we were quite happy with some of the new skills and tricks we learned. One area where I learned quite a bit more, in particular, was CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, and html style tags. One issue...

Jesse Batsche

08/21/2009

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Over the course of NI Week in Austin, National Instruments gradually introduced and demonstrated the new features that are being implemented in the LabVIEW 2009 release. Many were logical steps forward in hardware and software development, some were ...