The LabVIEW Experiment Podcast

If you’d like to learn more about Casey:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseymay/ If you’d like to learn more about Zyah Solutions Community Tools: https://www.zyahsolutions.com/community-tools If you’d like to learn more about The Actor Framework Guild: https://forums.ni.com/t5/Actor-Framework-Discussions/The-Actor-Framework-Guild/td-p/4259140 G Idea Exchange: https://forums.ni.com/t5/G-Idea-E...

If you’d like to learn more about Q: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quentin-q-alldredge/ LabVIEW Wiki: https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Home GCentral: https://www.gcentral.org/ G Idea Exchange: https://forums.ni.com/t5/G-Idea-Exchange/idb-p/g-idea-exchange Weasley clock: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckbzs2DpaOn/?hl=en GLA Summit: https://www.glasummit.org/ Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com/ QContro...

In this BONUS episode Sam and Steve talk about The LabVIEW Community Training Initiative and how it will benefit developers. If you’d like to learn more about GCentral: https://www.gcentral.org/home  Random Ramblings on LabVIEW Design Article: https://forums.ni.com/t5/Random-Ramblings-on-LabVIEW/Sneaky-Peak-and-Some-Love-to-Spread-CTI/ba-p/4335917 If you’d like to learn more about Steve: http...

Putnam has been working as an engineer since 1987 starting with General Electric in the Syracuse, NY area, predominantly as a Test Engineer. Early in his career he used a number of languages to perform this role. In 2002 Putnam started his own company, North Shore Technology, Inc., and has been making his living developing LabVIEW programs since. The projects range from a test system that recorded...

Chris Cilino has a passion for technology, teamwork, and mentorship. In his 20+ year career, he has employed all three in the context of using LabVIEW in creating applications and engaging with the LabVIEW community. Chris started his career at National Instruments in Applications Engineering, then Software Development in DAQ R&D (where he got his CLA in 2014), and then finally in LabVIEW mark...

22 year veteran of the global LabVIEW community, and ardent evangelist of SMoRES design principles, Norm Kirchner is currently a Chief Technical Support Engineer at NI specializing in RF & communications. Over the years, Norm has contributed several community tools/frameworks/templates including: Extensible Session Framework (ESF), Remote Export Framework (REx), The OG Tree API, Top-Level Base...

Brian Powell has over 30 years of technology experience as an engineering manager, software architect, VP of Engineering, and other roles. A regular conference speaker, Brian has given technical sessions and keynotes at events such as IEEE AutoTestCon, SXSW, the International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems, NIWeek, and GDevCon. He worked for National Instruments for over 26 years, and late...

If you’d like to learn more about Darren:  http://www.dnatt.org   https://www.linkedin.com/in/dnatt/   If you’d like to learn more about Sam: https://www.sasworkshops.com/ If you’d like to read our blog: https://blog.sasworkshops.com/ If you want to get in touch with us: https://www.thelabviewexperiment.com/contact

Our guest today is The LabVIEW Experiment Producer, Taylor Jo Oxley. Along with her producing role for the show, she is also the Director of Operations at SAS Workshops and works as an Administrative Specialist for several small businesses and entrepreneurs. Most recently, she began working with GDevCon N.A. to put on the 2024 conference.  Sam and Taylor recap Season 1, share favorite stories...

If you’d like to learn more about our Panel:  Q Alldredge: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quentin-q-alldredge/ Beth Heath: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-heath-reinert-517a89ab/ Andy McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-macdonald-9945b863/ Fabiola’s book: https://www.amazon.com/LabVIEW-Graphical-Programming-Richard-Jennings/dp/1260135268/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NIS5O0WH0P4I&keywords=fa...

Kabul Maharjan is a Software Technical Manager passionate about Robotics and Automated Systems. He has been a LabVIEW user for 15+ years, is a Certified LabVIEW Architect, a member of the GDevCon Board and a LabVIEW Champion. He enjoys working with development teams to identify practices that might work for the team to produce results. He likes to work with educators and fellow engineers to inspir...

Bre Gentile (Dr. G) is a clinical psychologist dedicated to trauma-informed and restorative practices in user research and products & services design. After spending 10 years in clinical psychology working as a therapist, she pursued her passion for mental health tech. She is now the Senior Product Designer & Researcher at Center for Youth Wellness @ Safe Sound and is Founder and CEO of Dr...

 As an original NI Alliance Partner from 1991, Chris Clark has provided software solutions for over 30 years (yikes!) to customers in a variety of industries, aerospace, telecommunications and RF, energy, photonics, etc. Chris has been using LabVIEW and TestStand both since version 2.0. and does LVRT, LV FPGA and Veristand too. In this episode Sam and Chris talk about the importance of securi...

Laura began developing in LabVIEW as a college intern in a dark corner of a Westinghouse test lab. She’s had the privilege to be involved in the development of LabVIEW systems for the automotive, nuclear, railroad, aviation, and space industries. She’s helped install cRIOs in nuclear control rooms, commissioned LabVIEW test platforms in a rail yard, suited up and used a PXI for testing in nuclear...

Mark Lund is a passionate LabVIEWer. He has twenty-five plus years in the lasers/photonics industry with a focus on test and instrumentation control. He is currently helping develop a LIDAR sensor for autonomous vehicles. His goals are to produce excellent test programs that are dedicated to the task at hand, can be easily modified for future use and are not over-built. In today’s episode Sam and...

Olivier Jourdan has been working with LabVIEW for over 20 years. He is the founder and owner of Wovalab, a member of the DQMH Consortium board, and is well known for developing and maintaining some well-known open source projects for LabVIEW In this episode, Sam and Olivier talk about various open source tools available for LabVIEW and the value that they provide to the community. If you’d like to...

Andrea Goulet is on a mission to integrate empathy into the tech industry. As a sought-after keynote speaker, she is best known for making empathy accessible to analytical skeptics who code. Through her online courses, Andrea has taught over 50,000 students how to turn “soft” skills, like empathy and communication, into software skills. Andrea’s current projects include Heartware, a niche training...

Hunter is a staff software engineer at JKI who's been using LabVIEW professionally for 15 years. Hunter got his start in LabVIEW at NI as an applications engineer and K-12 engineering specialist working with myDAQ, LEGO, FIRST and and founded the YouTube channel WaterlooLabs. Hunter spent 7 years as a software engineer for SpaceX working on everything from rocket engine test stands, to user interf...

Our guest this week has been working in LabVIEW for over 10 years, starting out with his role in support at NI. James McNally is a LabVIEW Champion, CLA and CLED working primarily in LabVIEW and Rust. For the last 8 years he’s been working as a consultant at Wiresmith Technology, helping scientists and engineers design and build high performing measurement systems. Sam and James talk about what it...

Our guest this week has been programming in LabVIEW since Version 3.1 in 1995 on Windows 3.11. Jeff DeBuhr is a Certified LabVIEW Architect and LabVIEW Champion and has worked for a variety of places. He started with Motorola where he was first introduced to LabVIEW, for places that focus on High Powered RF Amplifiers, created running software solutions for Prototype Beverage dispensers before wor...

Our conversation this week is with Malcolm Meyers. He holds both CLD and CLA Certifications and runs his own consultancy, AMH Test Systems in the UK. Malcolm talks about his experiences with his first LabVIEW consultancy and how he believes that being good at LabVIEW isn’t good enough on its own and it requires much more to run a business.  Sam and Malcolm share ideas about successful busines...

Sam and Steve sit down to talk about how GDevCon got started and how you can be a part of what each conference has to offer. Buy tickets to GDevCon 4 in Glasgow here: https://www.universe.com/events/gdevcon-4-glasgow-tickets-CLG43J Submit a presentation for GDevCon 4 in Glasgow here: https://www.papercall.io/gdevcon4 Buy tickets to GDevCon N.A. in Golden here: https://www.universe.com/embed2/event...

This week we sat down with John Giannangeli, who is not only a Certified LabVIEW Architect but also a Certified TestStand Developer and Professional Instructor. He is an avid practitioner of software engineering including specialties in revision control, issue tracking, and requirements traceability. During this conversation, we talked about how John and his team have been helping solve challenges...

Nancy Henson is no stranger to the community. She is well known and loved, not only for her ideas on how to bring creativity into the LabVIEW world but also for her willingness to engage in tough conversations on how to improve the language. LabVIEW Champions, understanding the philosophy of the code you are using, and welcoming coders of many languages are some of the topics of our discussion tod...

Hello and Welcome Back to the LabVIEW Experiment! Today we have the honor of speaking with a long-time friend and colleague Dave Thomson. He is an incredible LabVIEW developer, an intelligent business operator, and a champion of the LabVIEW community. Today we dive into a host of issues from what it takes to solve complex problems, to what NI is doing to solve problems within our beloved code, and...