Wednesday, December 15, 2010

January 2011 LabVIEW User Group Meeting

Please mark your calendars for the next Utah Valley LabVIEW User Group meeting on Friday, January 14 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at:

Thanksgiving Point Executive Suites
2975 West Executive Parkway
Lehi, Utah 84043

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Professor Kent Gee from the Brigham Young University Physics Department will present on Use of LabVIEW and PXI hardware in Military Jet and Rocket Noise Testing. This presentation will give an overview of multichannel acoustical field experiments performed by the BYU Acoustics Research Group on large aeroacoustic sources. As many as 150 channels have been used to record the noise radiated by the F-22 Raptor, the ARES DM-1 motor, and other vehicles.

This meeting will be open to LabVIEW users or anyone interested in learning more about LabVIEW. Lunch will be provided. RSVP either by sending email to: uvlabview@gmail.com or on NI.com

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

November 2010 Lunchtime Meeting

Join us for the next Utah Valley LabVIEW User Group meeting Friday, November 19 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at:

Thanksgiving Point Executive Suites
2975 West Executive Parkway
Lehi, Utah 84043

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Jay Eyring from Nuskin will present on Using the LabVIEW State Diagram Toolkit for designing state machine architectures, including complex decision-making algorithms, in LabVIEW and automatically generates block diagram code to implement them. We will also have a 10-15 minute group discussion on LabVIEW Tips and Tricks, so prepare your favorites to share with the group.

This meeting is open to LabVIEW users or anyone interested in learning more about LabVIEW. Lunch provided - please register on NI.com or RSVP by sending email to: uvlabview@gmail.com

Thursday, August 12, 2010

September 2010 Meeting: NI Week Review and NI Mobile Expo

Join us for the next Utah Valley LabVIEW User Group meeting Friday, September 3 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at:

Thanksgiving Point Executive Suites
2975 West Executive Parkway
Lehi, Utah 84043

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The topic of the meeting will be an NI Week Review and NI Mobile Expo, presented by Garth Black and Aaron Campbell, our Utah National Instruments Field Systems Engineers. The NI Mobile Expo is a 50 foot van that showcases a variety of example NI LabVIEW-based systems tackling hardware-in-the-loop, RF, structural health and monitoring, and mixed-signal test for aerospace and defense entities.

This meeting is open to LabVIEW users or anyone interested in learning more about LabVIEW. Lunch provided - please register on NI.com or RSVP by sending email to: uvlabview@gmail.com

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

July 2010 Meeting: The Real(time) Deal - Control With LabVIEW Real-Time and FPGA

The next Utah Valley LabVIEW User Group meeting will be held Friday, July 16 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at:

Thanksgiving Point Executive Suites
2975 West Executive Parkway
Lehi, Utah 84043

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The topic of the meeting is The Real(time) Deal - Control With LabVIEW Real-time and FPGA by Kevin Cole, Brigham Young University Department of Mechanical Engineering. This presentation will feature hardware demos of some fun laboratory creations including a flying whirligig based on CompactRIO with LabVIEW FPGA. Come and see great applications of real-time control under LabVIEW!

This meeting is open to LabVIEW users or anyone interested in learning more about LabVIEW. Lunch provided - please register on NI.com or RSVP by sending email to: uvlabview@gmail.com

Monday, May 10, 2010

May 2010 Meeting: Do You Object? Object Oriented LabVIEW Software Development

The next Utah Valley LabVIEW User Group meeting will be held Friday, May 21 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at:

Thanksgiving Point Executive Suites
2975 West Executive Parkway
Lehi, Utah 84043

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The topic of the meeting is Do You Object? - Object Oriented LabVIEW Software Development by Dr. Elias Faraclas of Digi International in Lindon, Utah. It will cover the motivation for why OO is a desirable way to develop LabVIEW applications, compare an OO approach to conventional approaches with examples and demonstrate OO code in a large-scale application. This is one not to miss for anyone serious about learning OO!

This meeting is open to LabVIEW users or anyone interested in learning more about LabVIEW. Lunch provided - please register on NI.com or RSVP by sending email to: uvlabview@gmail.com

Thursday, March 25, 2010

April 2010 Meeting: UVU Capitol Reef LabVIEW Monitoring Station

The next Utah Valley LabVIEW User Group meeting will be held Friday, April 16 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at:

Room 115
Mountainland Applied Technology College
Orem Campus
987 South Geneva Road
Orem, Utah

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(Note the change from the usual location. Parking is free, use South lot and entrance)

The topic of the meeting is a monitoring system for Utah Valley University's Capitol Reef Field Station. The LabVIEW-based system is being developed by physics students at UVU under the direction of Dr. Bonnie Andersen. The site monitoring system will be remote-controlled from the main campus in Orem and include the ability to monitor heat, power consumption, light pollution and environmental factors affecting the photovoltaic system.

UVU physics students will present on four different aspects of the project and show their solutions programmed in LabVIEW. Lunch from Brick Oven will be provided. Please register on NI.com or RSVP by email: uvlabview@gmail.com

This meeting is open to LabVIEW users or anyone interested in learning more about LabVIEW.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Fun with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® at January Meeting

Everyone enjoyed seeing and trying out the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robots at the January 22, 2010 meeting of the Utah Valley LabVIEW User group, held at Thanksgiving Point.

More importantly, everyone was impressed and enthused for the opportunity to teach and help elementary school kids to learn robotics and programming as Will, Russ and Ron talked about the Mindstorms league and yearly competition to be held again this year at Lagoon.

Kids use a simplified programming language to create robots that compete by following a line or running a maze, sumo wrestling and other tasks. Under the hood the robots are really running on LabVIEW, and so everyone got a chance to get hands on with the LabVIEW Add-on for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.

Stayed tuned for information on our next scheduled meeting in late March or early April. We saw several new faces at this meeting and the group continues to grow, so plan to attend and meet other LabVIEW programmers.


Wall follower robot


Sumo wrestler robot


As always, for questions or to join our mailing list please send email to uvlabview@gmail.com.

Monday, January 11, 2010

January 2010 Meeting: LEGO® MINDSTORMS®

The January meeting of the Utah Valley LabVIEW User Group will be held 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Friday, January 22, 2010 at:


Thanksgiving Point Executive Suites
2975 West Executive Parkway
Lehi, Utah 84043

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The topic of the meeting is LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT - Powered by NI LabVIEW, presented by Will Gardner, Russ Randle and Ron Terry of Boeing.

See robots created with LEGO MINDSTORMS and try some hands-on. Learn how to join or create a LEGO MINDSTORMS league in your area and hear Will, Russ and Ron tell they are helping to teach 5th and 6th grade students about robotics and programming using LEGO MINDSTORMS.

This promises to be a very fun and interesting meeting, so schedule to attend with us! Lunch will be provided, please register or send email to: uvlabview@gmail.com

This meeting is open to LabVIEW users or anyone interested in learning more about LabVIEW.

For questions or to join our mailing list please send email to uvlabview@gmail.com.