For those of you who need help reading the picture, here's the equation: X=24, Y=30 Phone:= 01.(y^2-x).(Y^2-10^2)x10 First five people who send me the correct phone number get a copy of "Control Talk: The Early Years" by Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner. You can either send it as a comment or by email. … [Read more...] about Ok, here's one for all you engineers…
Is Emerson paranoid?
As Henry Kissinger once said of Richard Nixon, "Even paranoids have real enemies." Emerson has been at the top of the heap for long enough now that us end users, the ones with short memories, can't imagine it being any other way. But Emerson's own people remember a long period of time when they were like the Avis of process automation, and the Rodney Dangerfield of it at the … [Read more...] about Is Emerson paranoid?
And the new version of Labview— has Labview finally grown up?
And the 20th anniversary of Labview brings the 20th Anniversary edition: Labview 8.20. National Instruments LabVIEW 8.20 National Instruments LabVIEW 8.20, the 20th anniversary edition of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform for test, control, and embedded system development, includes the following new features: • Open connectivity with The MathWorks, Inc. MATLAB® … [Read more...] about And the new version of Labview— has Labview finally grown up?
And from the get-them-when-they-are-not-so-young department…
Let's see if we can help here: THE NEED... ----- Message from "yousuf shahabi" <yshahabi@hotmail.com> on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:02:43 +0000 ----- To: Liptakbela@aol.com Subject: Re: Instrumentation Traning in Pakistan Dear Sir. Bela G Liptak. Hello and salute to you. Our curriculum of instrumentation is approved by the grace of God, from provicial govt. training authority in … [Read more...] about And from the get-them-when-they-are-not-so-young department…
Mindstorms NXT
LEGO's latest entry in the war for the hearts and minds of the world's children hit the stores last week, and it is, as I have been telling you, critical to the future of process and factory automation. John Groff, Marketing Director for NI, gave a set of Mindstorms NXT to his kids, who built robots, programmed them and demonstrated them to a press conference this morning. One … [Read more...] about Mindstorms NXT