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#         Time Lapse USB Image Capture VI v1.2        #
#                 November 5th, 2008                  #
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#                 John R. Porter III                  #
#            jrporter[at]u.washington.edu             #
#                  www.the-three.net                  #
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1)  Introduction
This LabVIEW VI is intended to capture and save images
at a regular interval from a connected USB camera.  To
use this VI, you must have the following installed:

- LabVIEW Core
- NI Vision Acquisition module
- NI Vision Development module
- NI IMAQ USB drivers

You must also have the following four of my VIs:

- Time Lapse Capture v1.2.vi (primary VI)
- Capture USB Image v1.0.vi (sub VI)
- Concatenate File Path v1.0.vi (sub VI)
- Time to ms v1.0.vi (sub VI)

2)  Getting Started
Open the primary VI, Time Lapse Capture v1.2, to start
the program.  On the front panel, navigate to the
directory in which you want the captured images to be
saved.  Provide in the "Image Name" box a base name for
the images to be given.
Under the "Capture Options" heading, choose how many
images you would like to capture, and set the delay
between captures (the shortest delay allowed by the VI
is one second, but you may have a longer minimum delay
depending on the capture speed of your camera).
Run the VI, and the capture process will begin.  You
can always see the most recently captured image in the
front panel's preview box.
Once the program has begun capturing, you can open the
directory which you previously navigated to and see
the images captured so far.  They will be saved in
order with numbers appended to the end of the filenames.

3)  Usage Restrictions
Anyone is free to use and/or modify these VIs for their
own noncommercial purposes without my permission, though
I request proper acknowledgment.  If you would like to
use my VIs for commercial purposes, please contact me at
the e-mail address at the top of the document.