Tom White's Enlightening Visit

This Wednesday, Tom White visited our Inventeam group in order to give us a basic preview of LabVIEW's capabilities. It was very enlightening!
First, Mr. White showed us a video of a LabVIEW-powered robot that, with feedback, could sustain a bipedal walking motion; it did so by obtaining and analyzing data from accelerometers in real time. We then discussed LabVIEW's ability to create logic circuits and integrate with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This verified LabVIEW's potential as a very powerful software package.
He then showed us a piece of hardware named sensorDAQ that serves as a "middle-man" between sensors and a computer. This piece of hardware will serve as a great asset in our project, allowing us to either use sensors that have already been certified by Vernier or convert our own sensors into a recognizeable voltage. We are currently researching other DAQ hardware, and Tom White has certainly led us in the right direction.

-Duncan