Ok we have completed this project. we did it using switches in a chute that are hit when nuts fall through. when a switch is triggered it sends a signal down the parallel port to a program we made. it was in vidual basics using the library win95io.dll (doesn't work on NT machines but use...
i am making a device which will be counting nuts (bolts) coming thorugh a optoreflector or an LED/LDR combination. and this would have to be connected to a parallel port. anyone here can help me understand how to send 1 and 0's to the computer parallel port to communicate and use the data in a...
I am making a device which counts bolt coming thorugh a detector, and all this is plugged into a computer using a parallel pot, but i need to find the means of communication with the parallel port and programming isn't my strong points, anyone able to help out on how i will need to communicate...
