Would You Be interested in a LabVIEW Educational Program?

element14 in conjunction with National Instruments is sponsoring a LabVIEW educational program on element14.

The program will offers basic educational lessons on LabVIEW and the chance to win a digital oscilloscope or bench multimeter, along with a 1-year subscription to LabView for building the best projects using LabVIEW.

The program will use the LabVIEW Community Edition. I am open to adding to the kit, so if you have suggestions, feel free to post a comment and I'll consider adding them.

I think this is a good opportunity to learn about test automation and get some knowledge on LabVIEW.

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0 DAB over 2 years ago

I have been interested in LabVIEW for quite some time, I just never had a good reason to dive in.

An education program could just be the ticket.

Count me in.
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0 Jan Cumps over 2 years ago
If you want to answer yes, but you don't have a SCPI capable LAB instrument?

shabaz and I are working on firmware that turns a Pico into a standards compatible instrument. Goal is to have:

programmable outputs. A few GPIO pins that you can use to control something (a relais maybe)

programmable inputs. A few GPIO pins that you can use to measure if a test signal is high or low (is a switch closed?).

optional, an analogue input (a Pico ADC)

optional, an analogue output (a block wave with variable duty cycle)

It complies to SCPI and USB-instrument standards. Enumerates as a test instrument on a computer with LabVIEW installed. It allows anyone with a Pico to participate in the training and in the example project exercise.
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0 dougw over 2 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

pretty cool...
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0 ggabe over 2 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

This is awesome, nice to see Jon’s Pico USB TMC to evolve. If we could get transparent LabView SRQ support all the way through, it would be incredible. To respond to a button or buffer full event on the pico.
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0 Jan Cumps over 2 years ago in reply to ggabe

ggabe said:
If we could get transparent LabView SRQ support

The scpi library that we're using supports it. If one of the trainees needs the functionality, they could give it a shot and implement it. We'd accept pull requests with a working implementation (target: https://github.com/jancumps/pico_scpi_usbtmc_labtool).
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0 ggabe over 2 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

Thanks, could not have asked more!
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0 rscasny over 2 years ago

We are launching this program next Tuesday. The sponsor went all out for this program. There will be 5 prizes:

Grand Prize

Runner-Up Prize

3rd Prize

4Th Prize

Honorable Mention

and Finisher's prizes.

About $12,000 worth in prizes.
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0 shabaz over 2 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

There's a blog here that hopefully helps. As Jan says, with just a single Pi Pico, you can immediately have a SCPI capable instrument, all ready for LabVIEW!

PST.. Have you worked with the Pico SCPI labTool?
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