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This is a great way to hook stuff to your parallel port without doing that much soldering for MSWindows, Linux, BSD, or OS/X (with support for a paral...
Parts: 1 - Spare DB25 male connector at one end parallel printer cable with all 25 lines attached. (If not a regular printer cable can do in a pinch. ...
Cut the cable in half unless it already has been done. Remove the cover the the printer port male connector. Remove the outer plastic protector. Be ca...
Strip the ends of all the wires so they can be connected to the terminals on the strips. Take a break if you need to as it will take a little while to...
Line up the terminal strips in a sequential order. From the right hand side of the side of the connector attached by wires. Take the first wire and co...
Take the plastic protector and put a slit in it from one end to the other. Now from the db25 connector gently stuff the cables back into the protect...
Now you can easily connect on the other side of the terminal strips whatever you want without doing any soldering. Great for such projects as controll...
You may want to attach the terminal strips so that the project is a bit more stout and less confusion as to which line is which. I just used doubled o...
Suggestions on how to use the breakout cable. http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/parallel_output.html First picture is for protecting the whole parall...
Using the lights for fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZmrw9JkrM Use qbasic or freebasic on linux or mswindows for this to work. 888 =hex 0378 fo...
Robotics test board all the cables are going to.
Untested: 12c avr dasa programmer (serial port) avr bsd programmer (parallel port)
using a reakout cable to program an avr microcontroller.
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