National Instruments and RoviSys are teaming up to host the September 2011 NEOhio LabVIEW user group meeting at RoviSys in Aurora, OH.
Hit this link to sign up at NI.com.
We're putting on a technical presentation and serving Damon's ribs and chicken for dinner. The user group meetings are a great time to meet some of the local people using LabVIEW and share ideas over a few beers.
Here's the official abstract:
Serial ports are disappearing. We miss them because they made integration to outside devices easy; just open a port and send some data! USB devices have never been quite as approachable and usually require the a programming API to be made available by the manufacturer. With NI’s VISA customer driver development wizard, we can easily create custom USB device drivers that let us open a pipe to USB devices and send commands using some familiar VISA functions.
During this presentation, we’ll start from the beginning with a popular USB Desktop Missile Launcher toy and show you how to create a custom driver, access it from LabVIEW, and even how to use some USB packet sniffing tools to derive the necessary control commands by “listening” to the host application talk to the device. The end result is a set of custom functions that let you add missile launching to any of your applications and gives you another tool in your arsenal of interfacing to unusual devices.