Serial/ Paralell Port Interfacing & More
I'm afraid you're going to have to bear with me a little through this post, may get a little odd at times
Anyway, I've got my hands on a ton of reed switches as well as a load of other gear, and I've had the bright idea of computerising & somewhat automating my model railway point system.
At its simplest, what I want to happen is for the PC to recieve a signal from one pin of the parallell/ serial port, and then after a delay send out a signal on another pin, which I can then use elsewhere. I'm hoping that this is a relatively simple task in itself, and that theres either a program out there that will do this for me, or a simple tutorial on creating something to do it.
I'm also going to need some sort of translation thingy to turn paralell port data into the simple pin pulse- I should be able to get PCBs etc. made up, but not quite sure where to start.
In addition to this, I want the ability to send out a signal on any one pin independantly of the incoming signal. Again I'm hoping that this is actually a relatively simple task to accomplish, and one that I can either map to a keypress or to a GUI.
Thinking about it, this may be better off in GH, as its not so much a software issue, but rather one of turning parallel port data into a usable pin signal.
-Leezer-
I'm afraid you're going to have to bear with me a little through this post, may get a little odd at times
Anyway, I've got my hands on a ton of reed switches as well as a load of other gear, and I've had the bright idea of computerising & somewhat automating my model railway point system.
At its simplest, what I want to happen is for the PC to recieve a signal from one pin of the parallell/ serial port, and then after a delay send out a signal on another pin, which I can then use elsewhere. I'm hoping that this is a relatively simple task in itself, and that theres either a program out there that will do this for me, or a simple tutorial on creating something to do it.
I'm also going to need some sort of translation thingy to turn paralell port data into the simple pin pulse- I should be able to get PCBs etc. made up, but not quite sure where to start.
In addition to this, I want the ability to send out a signal on any one pin independantly of the incoming signal. Again I'm hoping that this is actually a relatively simple task to accomplish, and one that I can either map to a keypress or to a GUI.
Thinking about it, this may be better off in GH, as its not so much a software issue, but rather one of turning parallel port data into a usable pin signal.
-Leezer-
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