Ideas for my LabVIEW demonstration

[hecmar.arreola]

Hello!

I am doing a short 15-30 minute LabVIEW "show-off" at a company meeting this Friday and would like to not bore my non-technical audience.  Well..there will be a few people there with technical backgrounds.

Really it is to expose everyone to the capabilities we have with the LabVIEW software.  I would like to demonstrate its easy to use graphical programing language "G" very briefly (with a comparison to traditional text based programming) and the Remote Panels features of LabVIEW.  What we normally use it for in our test systems is kind of a boring subject, and I also think everyone realizes and understand that yes we do use it in our test systems.

I would like to setup something interesting so that my audience can see LabVIEW in action but I'm not real sure what to setup.  I have DIO and Analog IO at my disposal.  I also have lots of LEDs, a stepper motor, and some toy motors at my disposal.  I have an interface to the simple PID controller and I have made a PWM function.  I also think I can rig up a crude light sensor.

Any ideas?
-Nickerbocker

[Nick_CH]

Hello,

To have informations about what you can present during your company meeting, you can have a look on the NI web site.

Best regard
Nick

[tst]

If you want it not to be too serious, you could probably create a game.

For example, something along the lines of "guess which LED would light up next and press the button under it".
Or if you really want to go crazy you can use the motors to create a one armed bandit. You will obviously need to create 3 strips with the images on them (you can probably do that in the printer) and roll those strips into circles and then connect them to the motors somehow and get the motors to rotate them.
You could try creating a Simon clone with your LEDs and buttons. I believe I saw an implementation on the LAVA forums once, so you can look there.

And so on...

[unclebump]

I always liked the bouncing cube example file.

C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 7.0\examples\general\graphs\gengraph.llb\Bouncing Cube in an XY Graph.vi