What capability would you like to see added to LIFA?

[hrh1818]

We have a poster who is looking for project ideas.  Hence now is a good time request new LIFA capability.   Lets put  his enthusian to work adding new capability to LIFA.

hrh1818

[jimmyservo]

A quadrature encoder read VI would be useful for low count encoders like that in the Lego Mindstorms NXT motor. 

Thanks!

jimmyservo

[Nathan_B.]

Mmmm . . Encoders . . That's one of the things that I've done that I haven't got around to making a generic version for the community.

[mffba]

How about having LIFA to work with Arduino Ethernet Shield ?

mffba

[Nathan_B.]

mffba wrote:

How about having LIFA to work with Arduino Ethernet Shield ?

mffba

The Arduino as a client or as a server?

[mffba]

The Arduino acts as the client meanwhile LabVIEW as a host to read/write the Arduino's I/O

mffba

[francois-normandin]

I'd like a OOP version of LIFA to allow extending the base class easily for distinct projects.

[Nathan_B.]

normandinf wrote:

I'd like a OOP version of LIFA to allow extending the base class easily for distinct projects.

I'm kind of familiar with OOP but could you give an example in the context of LIFA to which you are referring?

[eischifa]

A wonderful task could be the possibilities to acquire Fast Analog / continuous sampling for more than one pin (frequency 5 KHz/number of pin), a function like to "analog read port".

[francois-normandin]

Occasionally, I add new "cases" to the LIFA code that correspond to specific things I do on a particular setup, like when I create a dedicated shield and perform a task not available with the Arduino libraries. It is easier to extend and maintain the code if I can inherit from the base class and simply add those extra methods that I need.

I know others have done it for themselves (wrapping the LIFA code in a class). I'd be happy to submit mine if this idea makes sense for others.