What is Reddit's opinion of LabVIEW?

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Is this some kind of high school or undergraduate project?

We'll try to help but it's usually best to meet everyone here halfway by doing some research first.

Here's a starting point:

http://www.ni.com/labview/vision/

If you get stuck on the specifics of coding or using the vision module, let us know. Keep in mind, this subreddit is weary of doing student's homework for them.

I remember that post. They used Autocad to make the drawings. So to answer your question, No. The original author did everything twice, if you want to make the .dwg to whatever format Steve's factory manager uses (looks like LabView to me) feel free.

IIRC LabView has this. It's a visual programming language. Wires carry different types of data and functions are blocks with inputs and outputs. This whole thing reminds me of it a lot. I remember threading an unused value through otherwise separate blocks to get an ordering of effects.

I second what Hairyned says. Get yourself to the classroom courses run by NI as you get a certificate for each one. I've been through about $30k worth of LabVIEW training and have the paperwork to prove it, which just lets me roll over anyone else in a job interview.

In the meantime though the LabVIEW Skills guide is a pretty good place to go: http://www.ni.com/labview/skills-guide/en/ It will quickly direct you toward the LabVIEW Getting Started: http://www.ni.com/gettingstarted/labviewbasics/

Good luck and have fun!

You can give LabVIEW a try. It's not free, but they have a student version for $20 here, and you'll also need the driver for your scope.

Just to throw out a different answer, because I've seen this used at museum exhibits, LabVIEW. It costs money to develop with, but the reason is because the National Instruments company (vendor) maintains huge libraries for hundreds of components and sensors. Plus the programs are graphical which I find to be easy. Anyway, the biggest draw is creating a GUI is a piece of cake - drag and drop different elements like buttons and graphs and such.

Just buy a $100 SSD in that case and boom you have a "ultrabook". You can add ram. The internal graphics cards are so much better than what they were a few years ago. I have used AUTOCAD it is not some crazy power hungry program. Below are the requirements for your two programs and it is nothing crazy. I agree a i5 would be better than the i3, but regardless a $1800 laptop is stupid.

http://www.ni.com/labview/requirements/

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-AutoCAD-2017.html

De mon point de vue, le problèmes de flux/workflow/dataflow, traité par les références au workflow patterns sont un problème de place transversal (et donc non spécifique à un domaine).

Après, je te l'accorde, on ne peut pas TOUT faire avec, il faut utiliser un langage de ce type pour traiter des problèmes bien particulier d'orchestration.

Pour LabView par exemple, il est multi-métiers: http://www.ni.com/labview/users/f/

Mais sur cette page, un user dit: "Construisez vos applications comme vous les concevez". Je pense que c'est une erreur majeur, j'aimerai bien voir les résultats de sa méthode :) Il ne faut pas mélanger design et construction, se sont deux activités distinctes.

J'ai l'impression qu'on est d'accord :) Par domaines spécifiques, tu pourrais très bien entendre "ensemble de problèmes particuliers".

What stuff are you trying to measure? There are many types of dataloggers that come with some sort of web protocol. The two that come to mind are the

Arduino - relatively cheap and fairly robust http://www.arduino.cc/

NI-Labview - which is much more expensive but extremely robust, precise, and accurate. They have usb data acquisition devices that do almost anything. http://www.ni.com/labview/

Finally

Lego NXT - I have a small amount of experience with this platform but I have heard of people using it for many different science type data logging applications. Fairly simple and lego provides a surprisingly repeatable product with robust features. http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx

Ehhhhhh. I would have mentioned this, but it's really really expensive, just for the IDE. The additional hardware can range from $150 to thousands of dollars for advanced, real-time processors/FPGA's. But the IDE on it's own is over a thousand dollars to purchase. There are people that know how to get around paying for expensive software, but that is illegal, and in the case of LabVIEW, may be more difficult than normal because it is less popular than more commonly pirated software.

IDK, if you want give it a shot for 30 days, but I don't think the demo comes with VISA, which is LV's hardware interface library, and you'd still have to purchase the hardware, which would be pretty useless when the IDE license runs out. (This may be the worst sentence ever.)

Anything you'd (OP) want to do with LV you could do with an arduino for literally thousands cheaper. If you're working for a large organization than maybe you would consider LV.

If you want to teach kids how to program in a way that they will remember, you should invest in one or two Lego Mindstorms kits. The programming is all LabVIEW based so it is graphical and kids can learn it with ease. Depending on the age group you could also look at participating in FIRST Lego League which is what first got me involved in technology. I currently volunteer to teach robotics (Lego Mindstorms) to underprivileged children and they love it and can pick it up relatively quick.