[PLUG] pc as data logger

[Scott Garman]

On 01/02/2011 08:59 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> Anybody here looked into this?  The cheapest approach is likely to use the
> sound card and an external chopper to get past the capacitor.

Does your pc have traditional serial or parallel ports? You can use them 
as GPIO (general purpose I/O) pins with the help of some basic 
libraries. I used parapin some years ago to do this over a parallel port:

http://parapin.sourceforge.net/doc/parapin.html

Scott

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