Hi Peter,

A frind of mine did that with an Arduino board and wireless transmission. He
won the 1st contest prize this year:
http://www.libelium.com/tienda/catalog/contest.php
You can also watch his web page:
http://www.xbot.es/?p=124

It is not a PIC based project, but sure, as it's very similar, you can dig
some usefull data from that project.
Good luck.


2009/9/4 Peter Feucht <p.feucht@palmed-medizintechnik.de>

> Hi, folks,
>
> I have to establish a bidirectional (!) communication between a laptop with
> USB port and a printer with 8-Bit-parallel port. Usually I would buy a
> ready
> made USB-LPT-converter, but I have to alter some of the transmitted data in
> a specific way. So I thought of building such a USB-LPT converter by using
> an USB-PIC.
>
> Has anybody done this before?
>
> Any starting information for me?
>
> Thanks in advance and best regards
>
> Peter
>
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