User:Jjewell6655/ENES-100/project 2

Week0 Preferences
1. Music 2. LabVIEW 3. ComboLock

Week1 Narrative
0/0/0 .. nothing to grade --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 14:05, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Week2 Narrative
0/0/0 .. nothing to grade --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 22:25, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Week3 Narrative
Found a program that will allow LeapMotion to integrate with LabVIEW here. After installing, began to fiddle around with it and developed a sample program to run with it, but the frame that shows up on the front panel is far too large and has way too many things going on to really make use of any of it.

The next steps are to successfully use a tidbit of information from LeapMotion, such as numbers of fingers it sees, to execute a program; and to figure out how to unbundle all types of information.


 * 10/10/20 ... good need team discussion on the best practice for documenting this .. --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 13:59, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Week4 Narrative
Set to work trying to figure out a way to actually use the LeapMotion controller to accomplish things within LabVIEW. Since I can extrapolate a way to make it count fingers, decided to start with that. Made a simple program that let it count the fingers and added them to 4 to get another number, but had some trouble when trying to get it to do something complicated, like turn a light on or off.

I couldn't manage to find a way to convert the number into a boolean true/false statement, but then I tried using a case structure. I wired the pointables into the structure and created five cases, with a boolean indicator inside. This made it work so that the light would turn on once I hit a set number of fingers, in this case three, but would not turn off. I realized I had to have the LED outside the case structure, with a T/F statement inside. A video of the process can be found here:

Now that I know how to use a case structure to create variable outcomes, the next step is probably to integrate it with the rest of the LabVIEW project at large, possibly with an Arduino shield.


 * This written as a report to me ... the video is the fruit .. did you document what you tried that didn't work? Now I have to watch the video to answer the question. No you didn't. So that opportunity was lost. You just documented success. The video was great! Which is half of the picture. ... no next steps ... 10/10/40 --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 15:29, 8 April 2014 (UTC)