On 12/7/06 9:52 AM, "Detour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What platform(s) are you developing for? My experience is with OSX,
> and with that I've used a National Instruments USB based device with
> RB using declares, and I also have the Activewire board, also USB,
> for which there is a third party driver and support for RB available.
> The NI is more robust, also more expensive and the declares take some
> getting used to, the Activewire is cheaper, less featured, easier to
> get into. Don't know enough about the others out there.
> 
> Greg

I bought an Ethernet based I/O card. Never really built anything meaningful
with it, but did manage to turn some lights on and off for fun.

Pretty simple to use in Rb since all you need is a UDP sock to get/set the
state of the board.
<http://elexol.com/IO_Modules/Ether_IO_24.php>

The make a lot of addons for this card as well.

A lot of online hobby stores carry this. I bought mine from
<http://www.hobbyengineering.com/SectionIN.html>.

-Seth


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