Readme for bindings-K8055-0.1.2
Description
This library allows you to control the Velleman K8055, a usb experiment interface board.
The board has:
- 5 digital inputs
- 2 analog inputs
- 8 digital outputs
- 2 analog outputs
How is works
Velleman provides a K8055D.dll
, so this is a Windows-only solution, to interact with the board.
A FFI interface has been written to interact with the dll functions.
For this I had to create a definition file K8055D.def
and run dlltool -k -d K8055D.def -l K8055D.dll.a
.
Some Background
My first attempt at interfacing this board was using bindings-libusb
. After getting is to work
on Linux I was unable to compile it on Windows. Because my solution should work on Windows
I chose to interface the existing dll.
I haven't given up on the my first solution, it's still the cleanest way to go, having no K8055 specific, native library dependencies and being platform-independent.
Install
As mentioned earlier, we need the K8055D.dll
. This can be obtained by downloading the official
Velleman K8055 SDK. Extract it and put the dll, DLL_v4.0.0.0/K8055D.dll
, somewhere in PATH,
e.g. C:\Windows\System32
.
Then all you need to do is install the cabal package:
cabal install Bindings-K8055
Example
Press a button, digital in, an run the following code:
import Bindings.K8055
main :: IO ()
main =
withDevice Card1 (readAllDigital >>= print)
Or using ghci:
> import Bindings.K8055
> withDevice Card1 (readAllDigital >>= print)
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