Shizuoka Progress: Hal2Arduino

Post date: Feb 21, 2016 3:29:57 AM

UPDATE: I have been examining ModbusToHal as an alternative to the below. It seems a little more straightforward for the limited purposes I was considering Hal2Arduino for.

I have been trying to figure out how I should add general I/O, jogwheels, probes, etc to the mill. I came upon a tool called Hal2Arduino. It uses an arduino over the serial port to handle "slower" io for non-realtime tasks. Sending the counts from a jogwheel or MAYBE limit switch status should be fine. I think I might also use it for reading the estop status or sending the estop reset signal out. Tonight I created a "readme" cheatsheet for getting it up and running and modified the code a little to cope better with unclean shutdowns/restarts.