[GRLUG] Time Clocks and Software

[Ben Rousch]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:07 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Ben Rousch wrote:
>
>> Any of you hardware hackers have advice for me?
>>
> For $99 get yourself a small USB I/O module, and use it to drive your
> relay.

The current hookup to the buzzers is too far to run USB, and is a very
hostile environment for a computer. It currently uses a serial cable,
but I would be OK with running ethernet out there.

>
> That would allow you to drive the bell with whatever s/w you find, .. if
> you want to build something yourself, what programming language do you
> have available? Much as I hate to admit, Windoze & Access is about the
> simplest RAD environment there is - ANYONE can learn to program with it.

Although I have a lot of experience with Access, I would probably use
Python for any program I need to write.

>
>        Lee
>



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