{"id":18172,"date":"2016-12-27T09:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=18172"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:58:24","slug":"a-lifetime-with-labview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/a-lifetime-with-labview\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lifetime with LabVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tinkering with things has always been the name of my game. When I started high school, a few friends, a teacher and I started a robotics club. Our robotics club turned into a team competing in the national FIRST Robotics Competition. Click here <\/a>to learn more about this awesome program.<\/p>\n

We used LabVIEW <\/a>to program our robots for the three years I was there building them. No one on the team, nor the mentors knew how to use LabVIEW<\/a>, so we all started from scratch and everything we did was self taught.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

We not only used NI software, we also used National Instruments hardware to help build our robots (cRIO<\/a>, routers, etc.). From the beginning of the most involved engineering projects I had worked on with mentors, National Instruments was there.<\/p>\n

When I started university, I worked my first job as an assistant in a research institution. To my surprise, the institution used LabVIEW <\/a>to control all of their large equipment in the laboratory, calibrate their lasers and had an entire cabinet of cRIOs<\/a>. It was so cool to see software and hardware that I had learned to use in high school making research at a university institution possible.<\/p>\n

Again, Digilent <\/a>electronics and NI software was there.<\/p>\n

Now – as a brand new college graduate – I work at Digilent<\/a>, a National Instruments company, as a LabVIEW intern. I’m getting a chance to work behind the scenes on the software and hardware that I for so long have been surrounded by.<\/p>\n

So whats the common thread in all of this?\"\"<\/p>\n

It shows that growing up with electronics and finding a warm,\u00a0software home to come back to could be your life’s common denominator.<\/p>\n

So this holiday season: Start teaching! Keep learning! Digilent <\/a>and NI will be right there with you every step of the way.<\/p>\n

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Ella shares her engineering journey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":18037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4323],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4492],"class_list":["post-18172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/robo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4492,"user_id":41,"is_guest":0,"slug":"erickerson","display_name":"Ella Rickerson","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fe955cc73725d3ad87e297d094c41be82c3845c2a4488842c1a74a78ca36b60?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=18172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}