After a four-year hiatus, the Test and Measurement team was back at it again to create this season’s best LabVIEW ornaments.

“Four years ago, they had a very similar event, and I think that one was spontaneous. They had a Teams meeting one day and said, ‘oh wow, we could actually make these into ornaments!'” Roman Cyliax, Systems Engineer in Chicago, said. “Rachel is the one who brought it back, and we want to make it an annual event.” 

The holiday ornament-making event was not exclusive to Chicago’s Test and Measurement team, as other regional office team members were included.

“There were approximately 10 people from Chicago, and we had a few team members join in virtually from Texas and Seattle,” Milos Popovic, Chicago Systems Engineer, said. “We used the LabVIEW Development Environment. You can make icons for programs; you draw with this very clunky little icon editor, and you can make a 32×32 pixel image, so it’s very pixelated and grainy, but normally it’s enough information to say what a file does.” 

The team got to work and spent a few hours brainstorming, designing, printing, laminating, cutting, and finally adorning the tree with their festive icons.

“We probably made close to 30 ornaments,” Milos said. “We reused a few from the last time we did it just to fill out the tree.” 

From beginning to end, the ornaments took an extensive period of time to curate.

“You make them in the LabVIEW Icon Editor, which is not necessarily the most intuitive place to make an ornament,” Roman said. “You may spend about an hour drafting ideas and making ornaments. It took another hour and a half to cut and laminate the ornaments. In total, I think it took around 3 hours for our team to make the ornaments.” 

With dozens of ornaments made, a few stood out from the crowd.

“The ornament was a Christmas Constructor. In LabVIEW, you have classes. You construct a class, and it’s kind of like a one-function block. Usually, we have a stock image that’s like a construct and there’s maybe a little star next to it,” Roman said. “Rose made one that had the star being the point of a tree, so it was a Christmas Constructor. It was creative!” 

Another favorite was in reference to a quirk in LabVIEW.

“There is this quirk in the Icon Editor itself where you can make stuff transparent, but it doesn’t have a transparency button. There is one specific shade of off white that it interprets as transparency. You can accidentally choose this shade of white, and you think it’s going to be a white background, and then it just ends up being transparent,” Milos said. “There is an icon that has the RGB color code for that shade of white. Someone took the time to take an X-acto knife and cut out each pixel that is that shade of white, so it is see-through only on the text. That one’s pretty good!” 

After an evening of fun and team bonding, it’s clear that this is an event that the team wants to turn into an annual tradition.

“I think we want to make it an annual thing,” Roman said. “It’d be very fun to do it again next year!” 

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The end of August means the end of summer, but DMCers did the most to soak up the final moments of sun-soaked days. Here’s what the offices have been up to this month!

Top Golf

Dallas took the green at Top Golf!

Hot Pot

DMC San Diego went out for hot pot!

Brewery Visit

DMC Boston went to a brewery!

The Statue of Liberty

DMC New York visited Lady Liberty in style!

Yeehaw Friday

Denver held their inaugural yeehaw Friday (feat. Heidis)

Whiskey Business

The Chicago office hung out on the Whiskey Business rooftop for drinks, food…

…and some extreme Jenga!

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Temperatures may be rising outside, but that’s not stopping DMCers from soaking up every bit of summer! From major celebrations to summer get togethers, here’s what DMC offices were up to this past month!

DMC New York rooted for the Yankees at a baseball game!

Lets-a go! DMC Seattle put their Mario Kart skills to the test at K1 Speed!

DMC Boston celebrated Pride Month with a t-shirt tie-dye event!

The Chicago office spent a serene evening kayaking along the lakefront

Ray King and Jason Mayes’ families took a trip to the Downtown Aquarium!

It was puppy chaos at the Chicago office! Borks all around!

DMC San Diego and DMC Boston met up for dinner! (Shout out to Frank May for the Zoolander pose)

The Boston office gave Adam Wojcik a sushi-filled farewell at his moving away party!

DMC Denver scored a hole-in-one at Top Golf!

DMC Dallas saw the Barcelona vs Juventus soccer game!

DMC Chicago chowed down on empanadas and cupcakes before tie dying Pride shirts!

Many of our offices participated in our 9th annual FedEx Day as well!

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Run for the Zoo 2022

DMC Chicago whizzed past animal friends during Run for the Zoo 2022!

Game Nights

The Seattle office beat the heat by staying inside and having a game night!

DMC Dallas also got together for an evening of Carcassonne!

Fun at the VR Arcade

The Dallas office then got their game on at the VR Arcade!

Pride Month at DMC

DMC Chicago Admin mascot Sir Bones shows his Pride!

DMC Denver celebrates Pride Month!

Golden Hour at DMC San Diego

DMC San Diego tries to capture the perfect sunset photo

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