Help - University project

Dear all,
We have been preparing a university project using Labview software. We
need to prepare a labview program to set three pneumatic valves, that
this 3 valves will be responsable to set three pistons in a wooden
table. Could you please help me with this program?
We would like to send you an appendix with the diagram of this idea
but unfortunatly it is not possible to appendix a document here.
Because of this we will try to explain the situation below:
Imagine that these pistons are settled in a wooden table and each one
is responsable for one work.
1. One piston will be responsible for vertical movement (15
centimeters) during 60 seconds.
2. Other piston will be responsible for horizontal movement.
The wood board dimensions are: Lenght: 40 cm, Width: 20 cm, Thickness:
1,5 cm.
This piston movement will be each 7 cm, cosidering 60 seconds for each
work.
3. The third piston need is responsible to another work, he needs to
recieve a signal to make a movement of 15 centimeters.
We are looking for your help as soon as possible.
If possible, send us an email that we can send you a picture of the
system.
Thank you very much, kind regards,
Isabela / Eduardo

Hi Isabela,
I have used pneumatic valves with LabVIEW.
they are generally controlled by solenoids,
which could be activated by a simple DIO card itself.
Or even one could stick on parallel port with proper
interface maintaining the correct voltage-current
levels .
Regards,
Sundar.

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     Repeating the above for both Slide show and movie projects
Results:
     The encoding process never completes, but it abends at different stages in different trials--never the same point. Sometimes it crashes at less than 20% complete; sometimes it makes it to 96% complete, then stops responding. Sometimes it generates a crash report, and sometimes it just stops responding, so I have to open task manager to end the program.   Sometimes I get a message that PRE is dangerously low on system memory. I just close the window and procede, because I am watching physical memory usage in Task Manager while PRE is encoding and it is consistantly about 60%. CPU usage often peaks at 100%, but not for more than 60 secs at a time. When the system crashed, it generated an error message in the administrative events log sometimes reading: "The entry <name of project file> in the hash map cannot be updated"; event ID 3013, which Microsoft found no help for. When it simply stops responding, it leaves no error message in the system log until I close the program.
     I don't think I have a system error, because my system sussessfully burned two minute test projects, and don't have a project error, because I could render the timeline. What is going on here?
     B.T.W, some people I talked to about this problem who make their living in photos and electronics suggest I buy a camcorder which records in MPEG2 format, then simply burn the MPEG2 files to DVD without re-encoding, insert the DVD into any player connected to a TV, and play. I don't think this advice is correct.   Opinions?

Hello, freethedata. This is the Photoshop Elements forum. Premiere Elements has its own forum, here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premiere_elements
and you'll get more help with video questions there. Good luck!

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