Most Imaginative / Craziest / Interesting Thing You've Done With LabVIEW

[tst]

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@altenbach wrote:

And I definitely don't want to know how the destructive volume measurement works. 😉

(Does it involve a blender and a graduated beaker? 🐵

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Don't forget that if you do that, you need to compensate for the volume of air which you lose in this method.

[Ben]

CC wrote

"Since ultimately this drug will have human therapeutic use, I hope that they will imagine some kind of other test on man !  "

Yes of course. Those studies are conducted once every four years here in the US.

Thy break the contiy up into "Red states" and "Blue states" and the water systems of one group gets the trial drug and the other group get a placebo.

Then they go through this complacted ritual that results in most residents being disturbed.

They call it a "presidential election".

The results are evaluated by measuring how long the bumper stickers stay on the cars.

tst wrote

"Don't forget that if you do that, you need to compensate for the volume of air which you lose in this method.  "

That is just one of the destructive methods available and is rarely used because of the issue you mentioned, repeating that measurement is also very messy, and the safety equipment cost were extreme.

The age old alternative is to take a container of known volume and then count the number of rodents required to fill same. But this latter method requires a large rodent count to get 2 or more significant digits of precistion and getting all of the rodents to exhale at the smae time was troubling in itself (some may argue that the random respiratory cycles acted as natural "dithering" and acted to improve measurement quality but this is not widley accepted).

A third method was inspired by Houdini and works like an inverted version of the "Tail suspension" experiment I mentioned earlier but involves a tank of water.

BUT....

Fear not!

Matt has found a solution!

Ben

[Matthew_Williams]

We measured volume by displacement (not water); unfortunately I can't say more
because of the NDA.  There are, however, patents pending so everybody gets to
know soon 😉

Matt

[Matthew_Williams]

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@tst wrote:

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chilly charly wrote:

Ho ho !
How did you measure the volume ?

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Never mind that!

What I want to know is who would want to measure the volume and density of rodents.

And more importantly, did you get some of those not-destructed rodents after the job so you could have a friendly game of whack-the-mole?

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The rodents are used in obesity research (very big (sorry) in the US now).

Unfortunately the animals are much too valuable as research subjects to become
pets.  Most of their carcasses are worth much more than mine.  Helps me keep
perspective 😉

Matt

[tst]

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@Matthew Williams wrote:

The rodents are used in obesity research (very big (sorry) in the US now).

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So you're saying that LabVIEW is going to solve the US obesity problem?

If that's not something worth promoting LV for, I don't know what is...

[Ray.R]

Hi Matt,

I know what you mean with the NDA.

Unfortunately, all my wacky stories are under solid NDA as well.  

The only one (not under NDA) worth considering was to build a small application to reverse engineer binary code for an RF chip.  The manufacturer refused to give the code or any details of the code, so the application took the binary and created (translated?) into Assembly language.  Not wacky... and probably quite ordinary use of LV.  It was way much faster to implement than using C++ 😄

JLV

PS:

Solving USA obesity is definitely a very important issue... especially after seeing a movie on the subject... what was it called?? "Super-Size Me"???

Message Edited by JoeLabView on 01-16-2006 08:39 AM

[Ben]

I thought this one was cool.

We had to engage children in trying the hardest to squeeze a load cell. THis was provided as feedback to keep them interested.

Ben

Message Edited by Ben on 01-16-2006 10:13 AM

[tst]

Yes, but how can you measure the volume and density of the alien once its eyes start poking out?

BTW, who drew that?
You can see they're american, teaching children to be abusive towards aliens.

[Ben]

Nothing slips passed the Spanish inqusition!

My son did those images for me about 6 years ago.

Check your private e-mail for the first "Non-PC" version.

Ben

Message Edited by Ben on 01-16-2006 10:53 AM

[tst]

I assume that non-PC version was not done 6 years ago.
Anyway, the likeness is "canny". I guess that's the artistic version of poetic license?

BTW, I must say I didn't find it funny. Maybe the effect was lost on the first version.