Part 1: Introduction  Once upon a time, not that long ago, I knew nothing about what goes on in getting a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designed and assembled. There’s still a lot that I don’t know, but at least now I know the [..]

In Part 1 of this post, we used the idea of shining a light through a cut-out in a piece of paper and discussed how the projection of light onto a dark surface can be used to get an idea of the paper’s inclination. In Part [..]

In a previous blog post on the building blocks of an MWD system, I mentioned that one of the primary measurements that the system must make is the inclination of the tool. I also alluded to the use of accelerometers for said [..]

  There is often a point early in the learning process where the student knows so little of the subject that they don’t even know what questions to ask. Imagine trying to teach someone who has no concept of a car (like a [..]

  Nathan's Advice transitioning from college to the O&G Industry

 

The Queued Message Handler (QMH) or Queue Driven Message Handler (QDMH) is the most ubiquitous architecture in LabVIEW; so much so that the high-level concept finds itself in significantly more advanced architectures such as [..]

Background Integrator windup is a problem in PID feedback controllers that results in overshoot that would not occur if the system were being controlled only in its linear range. The linear range of a control system can be [..]