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This document highlights cool LabVIEW applications and videos. To submit your interesting project, email labviewzone@ni.com.
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Mind-Controlled Wheelchair
A group of engineering students at the University of Illinois have developed an amazing wheelchair using LabVIEW. In fact, this application is so cool that Michael Callahan won the Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize, which is awarded to outstanding student inventors. This great example shows how people are using virtual instrumentation to make significant improvements in everyday life. Click HERE to view the video.
Nexans Spider
The Nexans Spider is a remote operated vehicle (ROV) used to level the seabed and clear the way for a 1,200-kilometer undersea pipeline to support natural gas collection from the Ormen Lange gas field. It operates at depths of 1,000+ meters below sea level and in below freezing temperatures. Learn more by watching this VIDEO.
JohnNXT5 -Johnny Five is still alive!
Daniele Benedettelli's LEGO JohnNXT 5 contains two LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT units that communicate via Bluetooth to provide his masterpiece a full range of motion from his 6 motors and as much input and he can handle, from up to 8 sensors. Benedetteli built the model after careful studiy of Johnny Five photos to determien his precise measurements. Watch this awesome video on YouTube.
Heavy Machinery Making Light
Check out this VIDEO from a European light bulb manufacturer, which uses virtual instrumentation and motion control to produce one of their newer light bulb products. While there, NI discovered an FPGA being used to test machine safety and a lot of cool uses of fire. Fire is not an official component of virtual instrumentation, but always makes things more interesting.
Saving Eyesite
OptiMedica Corporation specializes in helping ophthalmologists treat retinal disease, and they have integrated graphical system design and commercial off-the-shelf technologies to develop their next-generation PASCAL photocoagulator machine. PASCAL uses LabVIEW FPGA and intelligent DAQ to reduce treatment time as well as patient discomfort. This is a video featuring a live demonstration by Mike Wiltberger, cofounder and principal engineer for OptiMedica, of the PASCAL photocoagulator from NIWeek 2006. View the video HERE.
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