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| Thread ID: 21710 | 2002-07-02 02:02:00 | Calling all Hardware Geeks: Remote Control of a PC | Craig Bellhouse (493) | Press F1 |
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| 59188 | 2002-07-03 10:08:00 | Cheers for the tips, but a quick note to the godfather, I do need to re-invent the wheel, as this project requires me do research for, design, develop, build and test the project that I build. With regards to the interfacing, What would be a suitable language to write an application in that would listen on COM1 for various commands and then execute functions based on those commands? I have no preference for this language as I currently do not know any high level languages for PC's. Cheers, Craig. |
Craig Bellhouse (493) | ||
| 59189 | 2002-07-03 10:24:00 | I assume this is for a Uni/College project or thesis. In that case shouldn't you be doing it yourself, and not soliciting assistance from people who could (without your knowledge) be professional hardware designers???:-) |
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| 59190 | 2002-07-05 07:08:00 | If you can arrange to do it in DOS, life will be easier than with any of the versions of Windows. I prefer Pascal myself, but some people like C and C++. No accounting for tastes -- I suppose there are even people who liked COBOL and PL/I. ;-) You can get Borland's Turbo Pascal and Turbo C compiler downloads free from their web site. (Try "free compilers" in google). I think that a PCI card would be a challenging project. :-( You would be better to use an existing interface such as COM or LPT. (Lpt ports are quite handy for serial applications too --- they have TTL levels (0-5V) so there's no need for levelshifting as there is with the COM ports. You can cheat on level shifting by using LS TTL (say, LS132) with 1k or so in the lead, and the internal protection diodes clip the RS232 levels. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 59191 | 2002-07-05 08:21:00 | Hehehe, nice one godfather, yep it is for a polytech project, but this is called research. I am required to research the design and application methods. Plus I am also trying to find the most feasible methods of proceeding with the project. I appreciate all the assistance that everyone here has made, After doing a few searches for various methods of communication I found that I would need to use API calls from windows to use the hardware ports (I am running XP so I can't use DOS methods) and as I am unfamiliar with any of the languages that Graham L mentioned, I have decided to take the easy way out and use the existing listener app I use for my keyboard, so my final device will plug into the PS2 keyboard socket. This way I can concentrate on the hardware design, and I don't have to worry about windows programming. Once again cheers for you help, Craig. |
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