National Instruments made me waste my entire weekend last week. Morgen McCarty sent me a Lego Mindstorms NXT starter kit to play with (I have to give it back, eventually). So I spent the weekend building robots and dusting off my old LabView programming skills. As most of you know, the Mindstorms software is "powered by LabView" which actually means that LabView 7.1 is under … [Read more...] about From the Lego NXT Mania plot thickens department
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Convivial dinner
Dinner with Duncan Schleiss and Dave Dietz from Emerson...when I used to live in Austin, and that was only about 12 years ago, dining out was a matter of which fairly bad restaurant do you want to eat at today. There was one, count 'em, one Japanese restaurant in Austin. Now there are as many multiethnic choices as New York or San Francisco, or Seattle. And some of them are … [Read more...] about Convivial dinner
TiPS on the State of the Automation Art
I visited with Steve Apple and Chris Wilson of TiPS in Georgetown, Texas on Wednesday afternoon. Steve is a former Pavilion employee, and has been in the process automation business for a long time. "We've gotten a lot of very large projects lately," Apple said, "and we think we're making our competitors crazy." Why is he getting big projects? Apple thinks it is simple. "We … [Read more...] about TiPS on the State of the Automation Art
From the making new engineers department…
Helen Escobar, of South Texas College writes: Here's news about a $559,000 grant we were awarded from the U.S. Department of Education Office for Postsecondary Education as part of its Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP). The grant was awarded to the college to support and enhance the offerings of its Dual Enrollment Engineering Academy (DEEA). This is … [Read more...] about From the making new engineers department…
From the rising tide lifts all boats department…Honeywell moves into Angola
Historically, Angola has been fought over, divided by civil and ethnic strife, and served as a place where one of the nastiest Cold War proxy fights was conducted, with Cuba and the previous government in South Africa standing in for the Soviet Union and the United States. Today, unemployment is unmeasurably high, education low, more than 70% of the population lives below any … [Read more...] about From the rising tide lifts all boats department…Honeywell moves into Angola
