VI Shots

About this original series

Michael Aivaliotis continues to build automated test systems for various industries since 1993. VI Shots brings you the latest news from the world of test, measurement and automation. You will find reviews, videos and insights not found anywhere else.

  • # Episodes

    33 episodes

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Episodes of VI Shots

    • Play Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Team 1717 - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Team 1717

      This video is the first in a series of videos I will be releasing over the next couple of months related to my trip to Atlanta for the 2008 FIRST Robotic Championship. I took a lot of video there and I don't want it to sit on my hard drive. Instead, I want to make sure the enthusiasm, excitement and craziness of the competition is shown so that new mentors can be motivated to help the next generation of engineers and scientists waiting in the wings.

      • Release date
        Nov 24, 2008
      • Runtime
        04:15
    • Play Powercast Wireless Power System - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      Powercast Wireless Power System

      In this video from robobusiness 2008, we interview Steven from Powercast who shows off some cool wireless power technology. From the Powercast website: Founded in 2003, Powercast developed a receiver module with breakthrough efficiency levels. Coupled with a transmitter that sends RF energy using algorithms developed by Powercast, the Powercast Wireless Power Platform™ was born. While the concept of sending power “through the air” has been discussed for more than 100 years, Powercast is the fi...

      • Release date
        Nov 16, 2008
      • Runtime
        03:01
    • Play LabVIEW based electric guitar effects pedals - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      LabVIEW based electric guitar effects pedals

      A video from NIWeek 2008. This guy really had fun building this electric guitar effects system based around NI hardware and LabVIEW. This is a wireless audio processing project. A 550 MHz transmitter transmits FM modulated data to a 5600 down converter. It down converts the data to 25MHz. That gets sent to a 5640R IF-RIO card. The IF-RIO card has an FPGA. That's where all the demodulation and audio processing happens which then gets sent out the sound card. You get very low latency audio respo...

      • Release date
        Nov 7, 2008
      • Runtime
        03:07
    • Play Opinions on the new cRIO controller for FIRST robotics competition - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      Opinions on the new cRIO controller for FIRST ro...

      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 competitions.One area that is underdeveloped in the FRC category of the competition is the autonomous mode. This is in contrast to FLL which is mostly autonomous. Hopefully ...

      • Release date
        May 27, 2008
      • Runtime
        09:23
    • Play LabVIEW powered Flexstack module with iRobot Create reads RFID tags - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      LabVIEW powered Flexstack module with iRobot Cre...

      Boston Engineering decided to demonstrate their FlexStack product by attaching it to an iRobot Create programmable robot, have it scan RFID tags and then make it do several dances. FlexStack is powered by LabVIEW Embedded. Take a look at this original VI Shots video.

      • Release date
        May 23, 2008
      • Runtime
        03:17
    • Play OLPC - Hands-on review and demonstration - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      OLPC - Hands-on review and demonstration

      Roving VI Shots corespondent and LAVA member Justin Goeres participated in the "buy one get one" program that the OLPC foundation announced last year. This is where you spend $400 and you donate one laptop to a child in an impoverished nation and in return you get one laptop for yourself.I caught up with him and got his feedback on the unit. One thing I learned was that it ships with an application called TurtleDraw. This little app is great for teaching programming in a graphical way. If you'...

      • Release date
        May 19, 2008
      • Runtime
        09:47
    • Play Nitro - Ball shooting cRIO powered FRC Demo Bot - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      Nitro - Ball shooting cRIO powered FRC 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 we see it doing some pattern recognition and executing autonomous moves based on the image viewed.What is not shown in the video is the ability to execute a specific move just ...

      • Release date
        May 18, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:45
    • Play iRobot Looj - Inventor talks about gutter cleaning robot - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      iRobot Looj - Inventor talks about gutter cleani...

      In this video taken at Robo Business 2008, Jim Lynch gives us an overview of the latest iRobot robot called the Looj.

      • Release date
        Apr 30, 2008
      • Runtime
        04:05
    • Play NI's CompactRIO (cRIO) used in FIRST robotics competition - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      NI's CompactRIO (cRIO) used in FIRST robotics co...

      This video highlights the new Compact RIO hardware that will be used as the controller for the 2009 FIRST robotics competition in the FRC category.National Instruments had a booth close to the pits at the 2008 FRC final championship in Atlanta. They built several robots demonstrating the capabilities of the new controller. One of the robots is shown here and the various components of the control hardware are explained.

      • Release date
        Apr 29, 2008
      • Runtime
        04:31
    • Play Boston Engineering - FlexStack using LabVIEW Microprocessor SDK - VI Shots on Blip VI Shots episodes on Blip

      Boston Engineering - FlexStack using LabVIEW Mic...

      Boston Engineering - FlexStack using LabVIEW Microprocessor SDK

      • Release date
        Apr 3, 2008
      • Runtime
        03:50
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