I’ve always wondered who all these people are that visit the LAVA Forums but never post. There’s about 7000 registered members but only a handful post regularly. I know many of you subscribe via RSS and never visit the site. Now’s your time to shine, lurkers! Just pop a comment here, no reason to be shy. Let us know who you are, where you’re from, what you do, whatever. It will help you get to know some of the other lurkers. . For those of you still scratching your heads as to what a lurker is, a lurker is a person that decides to stay shy in either a chat room, a forum or a blog, by not contributing their comments and electing to just watch the babble ensue in front of them. Now that made no sense, but I’m sure you got it.


And yes, if you are one of those regulars you can comment too.

Hi!

I guess I'm the first to respond to this thread...


I'm Physics major. Our computers have labview, and some of the professors are keen to it, but it isn't being used as well as it could be... So I have been slowly learning about it on my own (decompiling example VIs, etc.)

I honestly haven't had much time this semester, so my status is that of 'lurker'...

Cheers.

My science undergrad was also a physics major. There's plenty of resources out there that have info about using LabVIEW in physics labs. Urs Lauterburg is a physics education and LabVIEW champion (and a LAVA Member too) that has some excellent resources, including this one - I'm sure there's heaps of stuff your could get from him to make LabVIEW a more important part of the cirriculum. Another excellent portal to all things LabVIEWy and educational is the NI Academic page - there's plenty there to keep you going

I was an Engineering Physics major but my main interest was in Physics.

It was my advisor for my senior project that insisted I code it in LabVIEW rather than C.

Boy was that crappy code!

I used the max count icon connector because I did not know about bundling by name and later figured out that un-initialized shift registers can cause big problems when trying to restart an application.


Ben

there is so much to learn on this forum, especially as a newcomer.
this is really a great forum.
so, i have much more to read than to write
(still sneeking in when i can )

Thanks for the links crelf!


I defintely see several examples in the LabVIEW™ in Physics Education .pdf we could implement here.

Anytime I hope it converts you from a lurker into an active member

Chalk up another (albeit non-lurking) physics major here. I jumped the fence to study Control Theory in graduate school, though, after I realized I didn't have the kind of fire in my belly that it would take to want to pursue a PhD. in Physics. (Incidentally, that led me to teach a lab in an experimental course in Mechatronics where the professor forced me to teach it using this weird graphical programming language (v4.1 or so) where instead of typing your programs in and compiling them, you just kinda drew lines between little icons on the screen and then clicked the arrow to run the code. Totally counterintuitive .)

I suspect somebody like myself who mainly lurks but very occaisoianlly post, must be a lurcher

what a great game of Rugby on Saturaday night :-) ....... now only South Africa stand in the way of a great world cup double

Danny

Hi,

I studied Electronic and Electrical Engineering at university, and have been in the test and measurement field ever since (1985). Currently sitting within throwing distance of Danny, and appreciating his help.

Kevin

but he has not actually thrown anything yet

Blooday oath - with the 'boks hammering Argentina 37-13


...yet We seem to have an office policy that insists at least a dozen missles (nerf balls, spider balls, balsa-wood model planes, RC helicopters, ping-pong balls, practise golf balls, etc) be launched daily - often at my expense. One guy is even considering an amory of these...

more thinking of England stuffing (well scraping past) the French, roll on the final when we do the same to the 'boks'