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Posted by Curt Welch on April 30, 2009, 12:11 am
> > Anyone used the Velleman K8055 USB experiment
> > interface board?
> > I have been trying to figure out how to interface
> > my robot base and robot brain (laptop) and the
> > only thing on offer I could find in Australia was
> > the K8055 usb experiment interface board.
> > Previously I used the parallel port but my current
> > computer only has usb ports.
> > I have experience in soldering up such kits but
> > for some reason the test software that comes with
> > the kit fails to find the card.
> > I am using Windows Vista.
> The demo code now works (bent pin on ic).
Ah, that's will do it! Good thing it was something simple like that vs the
more nasty problems like a burned out IC from some silly wiring mistake...
> Has anyone used this board with their own c code?
Not I.
> John
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> interface board?
> I have been trying to figure out how to interface
> my robot base and robot brain (laptop) and the
> only thing on offer I could find in Australia was
> the K8055 usb experiment interface board.
> Previously I used the parallel port but my current
> computer only has usb ports.
> I have experience in soldering up such kits but
> for some reason the test software that comes with
> the kit fails to find the card.
> I am using Windows Vista.
> John