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  1. paulytrick

    manipulating a device attached to a serial port

    Hi, I`ve decided to use a pic chip to control the relays, The app your working on sounds great foada, Please let me know when it`s done. Everything is taking shape nicely and the friend who is putting the board together assures me that all is going well. Anyway, stuff to do and all that, I...
  2. paulytrick

    manipulating a device attached to a serial port

    Hi, It makes a lot of sense and it also raises a few questions, most of which we would have probably come across anyway as the planning details took shape. I`m sure both the above answers are going to save us a lot of head scratching as we figure out the problems we are going to face. What...
  3. paulytrick

    manipulating a device attached to a serial port

    Foada, I have a very limited understanding of electronics but the basic idea of what we are trying to acheive is to build a box with a bunch of relays in it which will be used to interrupt the power flow to the lights in a house. to switch them on and off. To do this, We are going to start in...
  4. paulytrick

    manipulating a device attached to a serial port

    Ok, thanks for your input, We`re very much in the planning process so far and None of us have really done anything like this before but I`ve been doing my home work (good planning is veeeery important as I`m sure you`re all aware) and I get the feeling this project is going to have quite a...
  5. paulytrick

    manipulating a device attached to a serial port

    Hi, I am about to undertake a very ambitios project with a group of friends purely to advance our own knowledge.. We are going to see if we can get a pc to switch house hold lights on and off through a device attached to the serial port on a PC. Would this be possible? My friends and I have...

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