Happy Halloween from the DISTek Boo Crew!
As usual, the DISTek Halloween Costume Contest is a time-honored tradition and this year was no different. The Cedar Valley crew gathered in the training room at the Cedar Falls …
Variant Management using ECU-TEST
The ECU-TEST platform, used for automated testing of automotive software, has numerous features that significantly simplify the process of testing the diverse hardware variants that today’s software is designed to …
Prez Sez: Finding Wisdom in Unexpected Places
Here at DISTek, we have an internal newsletter that gets published monthly to keep our employee-owners up to date and informed. I’m probably a little partial since I publish it, …
The Taming of the Code: Elevating Embedded Development through the Art of Software Craftsmanship
“The fault…is not in our code, but in ourselves.” A while back, a colleague and I were lamenting the lack of a strong ‘craftsmanship’ ethos across the field of embedded …
How Software Abstraction Made a Complicated Project More Manageable
My team works with a specific product that is hard to handle for several reasons. First, it has high visibility with the client because it is a large-volume selling product …
Fostering a Culture of Recognition
The power of recognizing someone is often undermined. We all cannot help but to get caught up in our busy lives and pass on meaningless ‘pleases’ and ‘thank yous”, inevitably …
Merging ISO Designer: Part 1
DISTek Integration has been heavily involved in ISOBUS development for a long time now. We have helped many clients develop and integrate custom VT solutions for their vehicles and implements …
2023 DISTek Engineering Awards
It’s no secret that we’re pretty proud of our engineers here at DISTek. We firmly believe that we seek out the best and brightest in the industry and pride ourselves …
Part 2: DISTek at NI Connect 2023
In part one of this series, we explored the NI 2023 Technical Sessions “Creating a MeasurementLink Plugin” and “Using Python and TestStand to Boost Your Test Development.” In this part of the series, we will …
Part 1: DISTek at NI Connect 2023
Three DISTek engineers from our Fargo, North Dakota office (Justin, Jared, and Matt), recently attended NI Connect 2023 in Austin, Texas, at the Austin Convention Center. NI Connect is formerly known …
Reflections from FIRST Robotics ’22-’23 Season
For more than 20+ years, DISTek has been a proud supporter of FIRST teams and FIRST events. Much of the support has been through the employee-owners of DISTek volunteering their …
Musings on Remote Work
Forward Like many businesses, the global COVID-19 pandemic forced DISTek to quickly pivot in order to keep our employee-owners safe in the early months of 2020. Accommodations were made on …
