I wish we could get a group of users to commit to giving support to XIAO/Grove Products
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@cgwaltney - A great idea! I’m game 
What would the group be called?
What would you like them to “contribute”?
In the beginning we just need to form a friendship of group willing to help
I would like to find solutions to common problems and funnel to someone inside of Seeed who could update the WiKi … I am working really hard with Seeed to work on the software support and future development of products…
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Just wondering how it will be different from what is happening now? Someone asks and if another knows the answer, they answer (in theory).
How will “membership” to this group be managed?
Its basicly the same… i have been here for about 8 years and people come and go… but few have stood the test of time… membership is just steping up to the plate and knocking it out of the park… what is your vision?
Not sure what you want here?
Just wondering if you and any goals for a group… you can tell us about what you do
I guess “and” should be “had”? Not really, I thought this was your wish?
I just offered to help where I could - hopefully without being “lambasted” in the process for using a particular chipset or associated development tools 
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lucky we dont have alot of ball busting on here… except for spelling and what-not
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Guilty as charged… Wait til you see what is coming. It’s going to be GREAT! The Seedineers have been a busy bunch is all I can say. 
I am glad we do have a resident expert though in YOU for SIL stuff just was skeptical at first. not of you 
of them…LOL. You are a valuable contributor seeed and we are lucky to have. I appreciate it.
GL PJ 
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yeah i also heard something is going to come out soon…
Hello Forum Dwellers,
This is my first time on this forum, so forgive me as I make myself at home. This may or may not be of interest, but it’s a good way for me to learn the forum.
I’m building out a set of LabVIEW drivers for as many Grove boards as I can afford (up to about 18 now). I’m trying to build out a site similar the Grove wiki, but for LabVIEW (as part of the project). I’ve also designed a Grove header for the Radxa X4, just waiting for it to arrive and test it.
My plan is to make all this brilliant hardware available for training people to use LabVIEW (I’ll open-source it when I get time) - we have a whole community working on this that can be found on most search engines (can’t post a link here it seems)
LabVIEW Community Edition is free for hobbyist and training btw and I have loads of videos etc if anyone is interested.
This is sort of Community R&D I think.
All the Best
Steve
Awesome! Welcome! This is the type of thing i was hoping for… keep us posted!
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Hi there,
And Welcome here…
As a Professional Young & hungry Hardware/Software Dev in Oregon I was LabVIEW Certified starting with LV3 and Used Labview for many, many instruments in the Chip FABs there and some of the coolest places around the Globe.
Labview Rocked them all. Didn’t matter PLC’s and PC’s,It was the secret weapon back in the day. No one was doing it. I still have some of the old hardware laying around DAQ-PAD & DAQ cards etc.
years Later I used it in the the Medical device field and in the Operating Room (outside the sterile field), failures were not an option 
Touch screens were new the development in SSG (Spinal Stiffness Gauge) a project supported by University Miami, Biomechanics department, and a well known spine surgeon Dr. Mark Brown, Talking LabView instruments was my bag. 
Now some of those same instruments pictured are now the size of a Deck of cards size… and probably have a Grove Connector on them… 
O2 analyzers, GCG, Particle counters , LGCG … one unit from japan actually used a frozen mirror and could calculate the Moisture content in the gas sample to PPT…SO, Tools that took days to dry down, now can have the gas be sampled in real time. Amazing stuff.
Let us know what we can help with, After a few reply’s you gain enough Forum credz to post new topics, links , pics etc..
HTH
GL PJ
I got away from it because of the whole subscription nonsense, We used to but the Professional Dev system like 8K back in the day, application builder , web stuff , everything. Then they went nutty with the support and current licenses , etc, etc… I don’t recall if the community edition work has the standalone application builder included. no one wants to drag around a dev system to test with., I used to love the App Builder. 
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Thanks PJ,
Thanks for that,
my story is probably similar to yours, it’s been a fantastic career all over the world doing all sorts of things.
To get into technicals we’ve written firmware for the Pico that allows us to talk VISA at it. One of the commands allows I2C, SPI, UART commands … SPI and UART are still on my list of things to test. Most other GPIO functionality is sorted.
I’m concentrating on I2C currently and have got the thermal camera, thermocouple, 4-chan and in, an out (m5stack) boards working amongst others. These give the biggest wow factor.
I’ll show some examples, when I get some time. And can work out how to embed vids and links.
We’ve also built a Lubuntu Virtual Machine image with LabVIEW community edition preloaded.
Finally down the wire we’re building out a vision package… it’s all free and open source… Or will be.
It’s all voluntary, but progress is good so far.
All the best, I expect we’ll be talking more
Steve
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Oh and application builder is part of LabVIEW community edition, certainly in Linux.
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