Rube Goldberg Code

[JÞB]

This one I love

Follow the bottom wire into the "Build Array" tnear the right of the snip back to its origin Seen Here

[altenbach]

(seen here)

local variable overload. Clearly a text programmer!

[Jacobson-ni]

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@altenbach wrote:

(seen here)

local variable overload. Clearly a text programmer!

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I just recently started to notice this but I appreciate the names given to the images you attach.

[altenbach]

(seen here)

"Index array" is such a complicated function and it is difficult to use to get the second element of an array with two elements.

Wouldn't it be much easier to convert the array to dynamic data instead and treat it as scalar form then on??? 😮

 

[yenknip]

How to Heath Robinson int to Hex string

[JÞB]

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@yenknip wrote:

How to Heath Robinson int to Hex string

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Where did you find that?  Are there REALLY 255 cases in the 😮 inner nested stacked sequence:O

[yenknip]

It's vendor driver and example code - and yes among the local variable abuse, nested while loops, stacked sequences, zero error handling, laggy stop button, and ignored VISA buffers, there are 255 cases to the if block.

Even better; the in-to-hex function is in several places and based on the code not being the same, they must have written it from scratch each time:

Still, at least they're not committing the sin of copy/pasting code!

[bsvare]

There should be at least 256 cases.  But considering that Number is a U32. I wonder what their default case is or perhaps extra warnings are thrown for that. (BTW, in that picture, if the value is 255, they will increment it to 256. Wonder what character value they will write to the serial port there)

[billko]

My favorite:

This is supposed to find all ASCII DLE characters in the stream and place another DLE after so a binary sequence that looks like a msg begin (0x10 0x01) or end (0x10 0x02) will not occur in the data.  Honestly, I would've done something similar; my colleague came up with this gem:

Actually, this undoes the action, too.  More for less.

[James.M]

I'm still not sure why this solved his problem because he didn't share the code itself... but this is an interesting way for the code to wait a few iterations before accepting a True boolean. My guess is there's something else in the code that needs a few iterations to fully initialize.