On 2009-01-23, Astan Chee <astan.c...@al.com.au> wrote: > Thanks for all the responses but I forgot to mention that I have very > little hardware understanding (at least in english) and the device > itself it very simple and only needs about 5V power to be active. The > problem here is that I want to control when the device is active using a > computer so I thought USB might be a good choice since its simple (but > didn't turn out to be).
USB is definitely not simple. USB is exremely complicated (and rather badly designed, IMO). > I'm open to any other suggestions on how I might achieve this > hardware and software-wise (as in what interface should I > use, etc). Also I'm trying to stay away from (complex) micro > controllers. Any ideas? Thanks again Astan Standard IBM PC parallel printer ports offer a bunch of 5V I/O lines that are fairly simple to control in software. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
