LabView

[Kari Laine]

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Hi,

I just got the LabView Student edition. I am wondering how difficult it
is to add support for hardware to it? I could play with few Velleman IO
cards I have.

Could someone estimate what is the required skill level - please?


Kari

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[Winston]

Kari Laine wrote:

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Hi,

I just got the LabView Student edition. I am wondering how difficult it
is to add support for hardware to it? I could play with few Velleman IO
cards I have.

Could someone estimate what is the required skill level - please?

I'm going to camp out here and watch the other responses,
if you don't mind, Kari. I worked in a lab that used
LabView to automate data collection. The scripts were all
written by an outside specialist hired for the task.
When I looked at the diagrams that purportedly showed how
each script did it's job, I got lost instantly.

It gave me the creeps knowing that if the script broke for
any reason, we would be down for a week until the specialist
could be brought in. Luckily, the scripts never broke IIRC.

I've use Tcl/tk and Fluke and Dataq executables successfully,
too. When the data collection process broke, for whatever
reason, I could troubleshoot and repair the problem.
A visual language like LabView *should* be intuitive and
easily grasped by someone comfortable on the command line.
I didn't find it to be. That is one *vertical* learning curve!

--Winston