Re: PC based measurements
From: Rich Grise (null_at_example.net)
Date: 07/17/04
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:10:37 GMT
on Sunday 11 July 2004 10:14 pm, Dr Engelbert Buxbaum wrote:
> Indroneel Ganguly wrote:
>
>> Hello Everybody,
>> I am trying to use my PC to measure resistance, capacitance and
>> inductance of the respective components.
>> I would like to use the parallel or serial port to do it.
>> Do I need to have a ADC circuit to do it ?
>
> Try and google for the "parallel port faq" for how to interface circuits
> with the printer port. An interesting alternative on a PC is the game
> port, as it can measure resistance directly.
>
> Note however that direct access to the pp is possible only with DOS
> based operating systems, modern (?) Windozze versions require kernel
> modules. So it is probably easiest to recycle an old 386 or 486 for that
> type of experiments.
Of course, when you install Linux, you can do anything you want to do
to anything in/on the machine.
-- Cheers! Rich
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