001 VISP Interview With Ben Zimmer

In this (our first!) episode of the VI Shots podcast, we chat with Ben Zimmer of Enable training and Consulting. We discuss how he started using LabVIEW and how he’s built a growing business around providing training materials. He also talks about his interesting journey as a mentor to FIRST robotics teams and how that …

Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Team 1717 – FIRST Robotics

This video is from my trip to Atlanta for the 2008 FIRST Robotic Championship.

New FIRST robotics controller – Interviews and Opinions

The big announcement this year at the FIRST robotics finals in Atlanta was the new robot controller from National Instruments. This new controller called cRIO runs a real-time OS and can be programmed using LabVIEW. The power of this new technology will open the door for new and more interesting challenges for future FIRST …

NITRO – Ball shooting cRIO powered FIRST Robotics demo bot

Another video taken at the FIRST final competition of 2008 in Atlanta. NI built a robot called NITRO to demonstrate the powerful capabilities of the new cRIO controller that will be used by the competition teams this year. In addition to a cool ball shooting mode, NITRO has some advanced image analysis capabilities. Here …