I would imagine there is more than just off-the-shelf hardware involved here. As per my post above the E-cat will require some dedicated software. Although it doesn’t say it in the story, I wouldn’t be surprised if NI was handling the software as part of the overall instrumentation.
I’m a longtime customer of NI. I would never have them prepare software for me. I’ve been to big complex physics experiments (accelerators and similar)that bought NI gear, and in all cases they wrote their own code, I don’t think NI even offers that service.
The press release does not imply that, it just says that they are buying stuff from NI, and NI confirmed that.
There are plenty of people who code .vi’s in LabView, and many little consulting companies who will do it for you if you don’t know how or don’t have the time.
He is already selling units, he would have already passed that point already.
“I would imagine there is more than just off-the-shelf hardware involved here.” you can imagine anything, but what is your imagination basing this off of?
Any facts?
Instruments are just that, Instruments, for them to be of any use, you have to have controls unless you want a person to sit there manually turning knobs.
No, for the software to be of any meaning, you need a control setup which these guys don’t manufacture.
Again, non-news pr junk by Rossi,