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Thinking about this in terms of what low-level actions are being performed by the Arduino (relay closures, sensor readings, basic I/O), it strikes me how this c
by bisrig 15y ago
Thinking about this in terms of what low-level actions are being performed by the Arduino (relay closures, sensor readings, basic I/O), it strikes me how this can be an alternative/complement to platforms like LabView. I feel this is significant due to the prevalence of these platforms in engineering education as well as in industry R&D, test labs, etc. - in my opinion, the more (different) tools that are available and to which people are exposed, the more likely these people will be engaged (in the case of engineering education) or able to get their jobs done.
- cnvogel 15y agoYes, of course it's a good complement for industrial or laboratory automation, test automation, industrial control. There are loads of different ways to solve these kinds of things, and they are all used somewhere... But in bigger companies, there's the issue of standardisation: A company policy might mandate that all test-automation has to be done with LabView, so even a simple "dishwasher complexity" device might be implemented on a dedicated PC because it's just cheaper to shell out the $1000 for hardware than to re-train engineers to do Arduino on a $20 board. Or some other company (possibly more industrial automation inclinded) might do everything with Siemens-S7 controllers. This is why in reality you often see things setup with the apparently wrong tool for the job, but limiting the number of choices might make (business) sense.