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Mason White
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Mason White

M.T. White has been programming since the age of 12. His fascination with robotics flourished when he was a child programming microcontrollers such as Arduinos. M.T. currently holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, a master's degree in soft ware engineering, and is currently working on an MBA in IT project management. M.T. is currently working as a soft ware developer for a major US defense contractor and is an adjunct CIS instructor at ECPI University. His background mostly stems from the automation industry where he programmed PLCs and HMIs for many different types of applications. M.T. has programmed many different brands of PLCs over the years and has developed HMIs using many different tools.
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Final project – creating a unit converter

In automation programming, it is very common to have to convert between different units of measurement to support clients around the world. This is especially true if you have a single codebase that supports a specific machine that is deployed to many different regions. To accommodate the different units of measurement, it is common to create a function block that can do this. For our final project, we are going to create a very simple function block that can convert the following units:

  • Lbs -> kgs and kgs -> lbs
  • Feet -> meters and meters -> feet

Depending on what you’re working on, there will probably be many more units; however, this is just an example.

The first thing we need to do is create a function block called UnitConversion and add two methods called weight and length to it. Both methods should have a Return type value of REAL and an Access specifier value of PUBLIC. When you’re...

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Mason White

M.T. White has been programming since the age of 12. His fascination with robotics flourished when he was a child programming microcontrollers such as Arduinos. M.T. currently holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, a master's degree in soft ware engineering, and is currently working on an MBA in IT project management. M.T. is currently working as a soft ware developer for a major US defense contractor and is an adjunct CIS instructor at ECPI University. His background mostly stems from the automation industry where he programmed PLCs and HMIs for many different types of applications. M.T. has programmed many different brands of PLCs over the years and has developed HMIs using many different tools.
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