Rube Goldberg Code

[JÞB]

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@altenbach wrote:

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@JÞB wrote:

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@altenbach wrote:

Sometimes I feel evil. 😄

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X(radians)+pi?  Aren't there 2pi radians in a circle? 

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That pi gets subtracted again later. It just makes sure that the remainder is mapped into -pi..pi instead of 0..2pi.

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EDIT: nevermind.  I had it turned around. 

[altenbach]

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@JÞB wrote:
EDIT: nevermind.  I had it turned around. 

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Turned around by 360 degrees? 😄

[JÞB]

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@altenbach wrote:

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@JÞB wrote:
EDIT: nevermind.  I had it turned around. 

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Turned around by 360 degrees? 😄

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That would have actually worked out just fine. I was looking backwards by pi.

[altenbach]

Sometimes the origin story for Rube Goldberg code lies with instructions from the professor:

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He only uses LabVIEW and apparently gives this assignment to students doing research under him every now and then.

P.S. He instructed me to try implementing this using a stacked sequence structure and local variables. 

(seen here)

[Jacobson]

Maybe this is his professor.

[Yamaeda]

Surprisingly 'cute' and organized VI, but so much unnecessary code!

I need to observation - NI Community

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Surprisingly 'cute' and organized VI, but so much unnecessary code!

I need to observation - NI Community

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"...I built a VI to ...", is a code smell when used by beginners 😁.

[altenbach]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Surprisingly 'cute' and organized VI, but so much unnecessary code!

I need to observation - NI Community

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Well, at least the wiring looks pretty neat. (Yes, done right, the same code functionality could fit on a quarter postcard.)

However, I am very suspicions about the serial communication in general.

[altenbach]

If a FOR loop should iterate based on the number of rows in a 2D array, N does not need to be wired, of course.

However, if we don't trust the compiler we better "calculate" the number of rows based on a one element subset of the array size array turned into a spreadsheet string, then parsed as decimal integer. Why not?

(I am wondering how long it took the OP to get this N value output just right! Guessing hours! 😄 )

(seen here)

The following would be equivalent, but since the code is fundamentally incorrect for the given problem, we don't really care.