LabVIEW_for_NXT_宣传.pptVIP

* October 22 – Jeff Buterbaugh Aaron Campbell? Kathryn’s area? * * October 20 – Jeff Buterbaugh (two mindstorms) Aaron Campbell? Kathryn’s area? * * * * So everywhere I go, engineers get more excited about this product than any other offering from National Instruments. But why? What is it about the lego MINDSTORMS that is so appealing to engineers? Can we take any of the problems that are solved by Lego MINDSTORMS and apply them to REAL engineering? * So let’s look first at the hardware. What makes this brick so cool. Sure, it’s nice to be able to program a 32-bit processor with an LCD and a speaker, but really, it’s much more about the connectivity. ANIMATE In the engineering world, we would call these sensors and actuators. Using this tool, you can really develop something quickly that can gain a lot of information about the world around it. But that still isn’t the whole story. * What is it comes down to is that with the combination of the mechanical flexibility of the legos and the connectivity and ease of programming of the brick, you are no longer limited by execution and even those of us without masters in mechatronics can take our crazy ideas and make them into a reality. These applications we all downloaded from the MINDSTORMS website, and they represent just a small sampling of the crazy inventions that these lego users are devising when they are limited only by their imagination. On this slide you see everything form a camera controller (lower left) to vehicles to crawling creatures to a wax candle lathe (in the upper left) which takes a candle and reduces it’s diameter to mold it into a new shape. (http://MINDSTORMS./NXTLOG/ProjectDisplay.aspx?id=c85e245e-d4b2-4453-a26f-36872ae69548) The rest of this presentation really takes a look at the NXT hardware and software from an engineering point of view and looks at why these concepts are not too far from what real embedded design can be like. * Let’s start by taking a look at a generic architec