Best approach to use 2 one dimensional position stages for laser engraving

[lniu]

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Ravens Fan wrote:

Yes.  That is the palette.

The Read JPEG function puts out a cluster of different parameters.  One of which is a 1-D array called image consisting of unsigned bytes.  You could unbundle that to get the array.  You can use the image attributes in order to reshape the 2-D if you need to.  You may also need to do some analysis on the array  so that you can convert the 255 potential values to a single on/off value.

Be careful with JPEG's as they have built in compression.  You could have compression artifacts that would make the image not as sharp as you would desire.

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Great! You mentioned that I would need to do some analysis to the array of bytes to make it 1/0 values. How can I do that? Is there another VI or is it part of this function? 

Also, is there a way I can save the output from the JPEG function to view as a text file?

Thanks for your prompt response!

[RavensFan]

It might be as simple as taking the array and comparing it to 128.  >128, you get a true, <=128 you get a false.

You can create an indicator of the cluster coming out of the jpeg on screen.  You could unbundle the array out of the cluster, and pass that to a Write to Spreadsheet File function.