Re: Driving servos from a PC

Nospam wrote:

I stand to be corrected but I don't know of any simple way that you can
interface a servo to a sound card, let alone two.

I don't see that two is any harder than one, given that I have a stereo channel to play with. Exactly how hard *one* is, of course, is something I came here to find out :-)

servos would be good but might be a little over kill, why only two to
each PC? Could you use one PC for upto eight?

The event is actually three identical events running at the same time, each with two dials. It's not inconceivable that I might drive all three pairs of dials from a single computer and have the machines running the other two events talk to it over a network, but I'd much prefer to have them independent. They may in fact be running in different rooms.

if so some ideas to make your own servo controller at:

http://www.rentron.com/SerialServo.htm

Thanks. I don't know why I didn't think of using the serial port before - clearly much more sensible than the soundcard!

Pete
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