motion.digital-out-00 problem

spumco wrote:

Using ladder seemed more intuitive (to me) than trying to sort out everything in HAL.

I am the opposite, i can do anything in hal with a little fiddling, but ladder seemed like martian to me! And yes i know ladder is much easier and simpler, but i have a miss-wired brain so i enjoy complicated stuff.

tommylight wrote:

spumco wrote:

Using ladder seemed more intuitive (to me) than trying to sort out everything in HAL.

I am the opposite, i can do anything in hal with a little fiddling, but ladder seemed like martian to me! And yes i know ladder is much easier and simpler, but i have a miss-wired brain so i enjoy complicated stuff.
 

Nah I'm the same way. PLC guys get ladder, if you never bothered to mess with PLCs you really have no reason to have learned ladder.

HAL is pretty underrated, it's basically a programming API for electrical engineers. You certainly don't have to be one but it doesn't require knowledge of coding or any specific jargon. Spend an hour reading a tutorial and you know 90% of what you need to know.

IIRC there used to be some project that was like a graphical HAL configurator. I wonder what ever happened to that.

blazini36 wrote:

 

IIRC there used to be some project that was like a graphical HAL configurator. I wonder what ever happened to that.

In the one demo I saw a decent-sized HAL config looked like a wall-chart of spaghetti.

 

spumco wrote:

blazini36 wrote:

 

IIRC there used to be some project that was like a graphical HAL configurator. I wonder what ever happened to that.



In the one demo I saw a decent-sized HAL config looked like a wall-chart of spaghetti.

 

Yeah that sounds familiar but it was just a concept at the time. Any idea what ever happened to it?

I think you're thinking of Eagle2HAL. I haven't used it yet so IDK how viable it is.

wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Eagle2HAL

I forgot about that one. That looks better than the one I was actually thinking of but it would be a hole lot better if it used KiCAD.

I was actually thinking of Rockhopper. After I looked it up I realize it's kinda hard to follow.