Jason Mayes

10/16/2012

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A few weeks ago I had the chance to experiment with serial communications using a Siemens S7-1200 PLC outfitted with a CM1241 (RS-485 module). Due to the limited number of projects we've had using the 1200 line of PLCs, this was an office first. ...

Cesar Pena

10/16/2012

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One of the most interesting and fun projects I have worked at DMC was to develop a Dimensional Measurement system for our customer LTS Scale.   In a nutshell, the system calculates the volume of an object on a forklift pallet. ...

DMC

10/08/2012

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Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.

Otto Gottlieb

10/05/2012

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Seeing Blues Traveler perform at Harry Caray’s on Navy Pier for Mark Locascio's welcome party is not the ordinary Thursday evening. However, Mark is not an ordinary person, but an extraordinary and very important person who deserves to...

Boris Cherkasskiy

10/01/2012

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TI (Texas Instruments) is awesome - I've always known it. What I like the most is their extremely low-cost ($4.30, who beats that?) Launchpad development kit that includes 2 "value line" (pronounced "super-cheap") mi...

Danny Budzinski

09/25/2012

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Welcome to the Programming Tournament National Championship! For the sake of drama, I was going to make a Tournament Highlights blog first, but I figured that everyone was probably so overly excited that putting off the decision any longer would be i...

Ken Brey

09/19/2012

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Line-scanning is a digital photography technique that uses a special camera with only a single line of pixels instead of the usual rectangular area. Rather than taking an image all at once, the camera and object are typically moved relative to each o...

Patrick Corcoran

09/13/2012

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Last month, on August 23rd, DMC played host to the Chicago LabVIEW Users Group. Over 40 attendees from the Chicagoland area traveled to DMC to participate in the event. The Chicago LabVIEW Users Community is a great way for members of the local NI te...

DMC

09/13/2012

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Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.

Jessica Mlinaric

09/12/2012

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Courtney Mitchell, Administrative Coordinator “Administration” is an open-ended area. What’s the range of projects that you work on? I work mostly on random issues that most people don’t think about and that they won&rsq...