Cool Application....

National Instruments (NI),US of A has started a code contest using LabVIEW.All that you have to do is upload some of your cool applications and the top prize is an ipad and winners in various categories can go away with $100 amazon gift voucher.

I have been browsing some of the applications that have been loaded at

http://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/coding-challenge-2010

My favorite application among several cool applications is "Mathnode" by Mr.Darin.K

Here is what Darin says about his baby

"My primary goal of this example is to demonstrate something cool in LabVIEW. I hope to have accomplished a few things: Demonstrate cool LV capabilities such as scripting and XNodes in new and interesting ways and to share my vision for a new type of math tool in LabVIEW that is based on G, but leverages the power of other tools such as Mathematica, Math Type, LaTeX, and others. In short, I utilize the power of LaTeX and MathML to quickly and easily share equations between all of these programs (and even Wikipedia) and implement them in native G code in LabVIEW."

With this tool its just a copy paste for many complicated looking math equations to be coded into LabVIEW...Great productivity tool.Almost eliminates the "drag" effect for coding these math equation.

Its cool Darin.Thanks for sharing the coolest of the codes.

You can find details and download code from

http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-13859

If you are someone who prefer videos to text.Here are the videos


Part 1 - Introduction : http://www.screencast.com/t/WgKDsNzI0
Part 2 - Math Input Control and Math Node : http://www.screencast.com/t/jnW69fj1P
Part 3 - Multiple Equations from Wikipedia and Quick Drop Action : http://www.screencast.com/t/YzG9ojDPig3


I enjoyed the idea.Hope you do.

By the way,if you have some cool LabVIEW.Please do share.

Lets LabVIEW

Iam a LabVIEW application developer.I work a lot with LabVIEW.So,I just wanted to share my notings about LabVIEW,developed by National Instruments,US.
LabVIEW is an abbreviation for Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Experimental Work Bench.It is a graphical programming Language.So,you do not have to type in to code the logic.Its a different way of coding all together compared to traditional programming languages like C,C# ,Java or Matlab.I have seen Microsoft Robotic studio to be something similar to LabVIEW in terms of programming paradigm.And Dasylab is another such programming language.
Fine,so where is LabVIEW used.LabVIEW started off primarily for programming for PC based data acquisition and control applications.Now,it enables its primary task and even more.LabVIEW coding can be done for data/signal acquisition and control on desktop computers,laptops,embedded platforms and even on mobiles.On mobiles it is restricted to Windows OS.Iam waiting to see LabVIEW for Android platform.In fact LabVIEW can help perform embedded application development for 32 bit microcontrollers.
The list of domains it has expanded include image acquisition and processing (there are some beautiful applications of separating items based on sizes in a factory),signal processing,simulation,3 D visualization and a lot more.
Well,wait a sec.Its a sunday evening.I will continue with this series of blogs on LabVIEW.
By the way,feel free to post your queries,questions,any findings,know-how and points.I will happy to answer to my knowledge (a learning mind is always young).
Have a nice time.