Micah C Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Dear Hak5 Community, I am very interested in building hardware then making it do something with VB for instance. Say we take an LED, is there any way to hook it up to my computer then with a button provided on a VB.NET form make it light up. Is this to complicated? Can I do anything similar? where do I start with this wild idea? Any input?, Micah C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 You'll need some thing like this: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=42857 Turning a LED on and off is super easy once you can make the outputs do what you want. You just then have to wire up a relay to the outputs on the board and the relay to the LED and a power supply (the supply could be another USB port). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Systm did a show using some thing like this (if not the exact same one). http://revision3.com/systm/crane/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 My IT class is centered around robotics for this semester. The robots, the Paralax Boe-Bot, come ready made. You can use their program "BASIC Stamp Editor" and write code in a, somewhat, modified form of BASIC. Takes either 4 AA batteries or a single 9v. They have a USB and serial version and can be debugged onscreen as well. Breadboard is connected to mainboard. They produce many components specifically made for their robots as well. Great documentation of the Boe-Bot and components too. Paralax Inc. - http://parallax.com Boe-Bot - http://www.parallax.com/tabid/411/Default.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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