VI Shots LabVIEW Audio Podcast

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013 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. *Kee...

Dec 16, 2011•42 min

012 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: D...

Dec 07, 2011•16 min

011 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 helpi...

Oct 20, 2011•41 min

010 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. Her...

Aug 01, 2011•28 min

009 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...

Jul 18, 2011•41 min

008 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 indus...

Jul 11, 2011•53 min

007 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...

Jun 27, 2011•24 min

006 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...

May 31, 2011•39 min

005 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 worki...

May 16, 2011•33 min

004 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 ...

May 02, 2011•26 min

003 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 h...

Apr 20, 2011•34 min

002 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 LabVIE...

Mar 06, 2011•31 min

001 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. Show Transcription: Michael : Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of...

Feb 13, 2011•37 min

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