On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 01:13:12PM +0100, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> > I still question the means... between 
> > 
> > 1- buying a commercial USB-to-Parallel converter to be able 
> > to wiggle some
> > pins in a limited way and building a limited programmer 
> > around it, and 
> > 
> > 2- buying a programmed PIC to do exactly that (wiggling some 
> > pins) in a
> > much less limited way (and then build the rest of the minimal hardware
> > around the PIC), 
> > 
> > to me the second version looks more "in control", more "DIY".
> 
> But much less 'available around the corner'.

Bingo! There's no way it would pass the Sunday afternoon Radio Shack
(spares etc) test.

BAJ
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