astan.c...@al.com.au wrote:
Hi,
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). 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
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How about a different interface? From what I have read the parallel
port is a bit easier to program. I think you can control the data lines
of the parallel port though. There is also a python wrapper for it on
the pyserial web site (pyparallel maybe?)
If you don't have a built-in parallel port then there are those USB to
serial/parallel converters.
Brian A. Vanderburg II
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