On 2/12/06, Tod Merley <<a href="mailto:todbot88@gmail.com">todbot88@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> The voltage change (yet to be designed - lots of flexibility here - for<br>> example we could make it +12vDC @ 300ohms <+12vDC@300ohms> = high and -12vDC
<br>> @ 300ohms <+12vDC@300ohms> = low as in classic RS-232 or we could use a<br>> "pull up" resistor into a CMOS/TTL type device.<br>><br><br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:13:04 -0500<br>From: Billy Pollifrone <<a href="mailto:billy@silverbaseball.com">
billy@silverbaseball.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: Voltage Change = Execute Script/Program<br>To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>
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<br><br>If you are looking for seeing if a signal is high or low, you can use the<br>parallel port for this with the parallel port library PARAPIN. There is a<br>warning I must give that if you are not careful, you may end up breaking
<br>your motherboard's parallel port. If you are careful though, you can<br>implement this will minimal cost.<br><br>A safer approach is to use an external circuit that will deliver the<br>readings to the PC via serial, usb or GPIB. There is, of course, a cost
<br>involved in this.</blockquote>
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<div>Hi Billy!</div>
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<div>PARAPIN looks very promising. Yes, I will look at the paralell port standards and design my interface to properly use it. Thanks for the good word! Minimul cost is good here.</div>
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<div>GPIB drove me crazy the first time I used it (actually on some old HP9000 stuff). Seemed very convoluted for what we were doing and even convoluted for what anyone would want to do. I am supprised that it is still arround. Remembering the crazy paralell TTL level interface I find the picture at
<a href="http://www.ni.com/gpib/">http://www.ni.com/gpib/</a> , where there is GPIB on one end and USB on the other just worth a laugh. I am happy to see <a href="http://www.bb-elec.com/">http://www.bb-elec.com/</a> expanding into the realm of ethernet, wireless (internet capable), and USB hung digital and analog devices.
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<div>Thanks for the help!</div>
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<div>Tod</div><br> </div>