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BreakPoint
Rube Goldberg Code
@Blokk wrote:
From here:
I had to stare at that far longer than I should have to figure out what was going on.
@BowenM wrote:
@Blokk wrote:
From here:
I had to stare at that far longer than I should have to figure out what was going on.
It's not that bad
. Just replace the two Booleans, two shift register, the AND, the selector and the 7 wires for a "First Call?". So 7 nodes, 7 wires replaced by 1 node and 0 wires? Yes, that's Rube Goldberg Code alright!
Somehow that one pixel jump in the top wire (on the right) bothers me more then in should.
Search LabVIEW like a graph! 
wiebe@CARYA wrote:
It's not that bad
Actually, it looks like you still need the feedback node, because the point is to check the current time against the start time. One option would be to use the FN and select. Another might be to use just the FN and set it to initialize on first call, then wire the current time to the init terminal and the output back to the input.
@tst wrote:
wiebe@CARYA wrote:
It's not that bad
Actually, it looks like you still need the feedback node, because the point is to check the current time against the start time.
Yes, one. The other two are redundant.
But the First Call? is indeed not needed, as it's function is build in the FB.
Let's wait for a period of time, in 10 msec chunks, but the number of times to wait is based on a arithmetic series.
While loop near bottom after VISA Write
@jwscs wrote:
that is the rube goldebergish part 😉
Why (just covering myself...)?
That's a very efficient way to wait ~500 ms the first time, and then until the next 10 ms multiple forever after.
It could a bug or a feature. In the last case it's programmed pretty efficiently.
