Controlling External Devices

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Fri Nov 4 13:45:45 EST 2005


>this is also the feedback i got when i asked a few folks about the 
>possibility of doing usb communications. highly variable depending 
>on the hardware you are talking to. not as simple as the good olde 
>serial signal. Hopefully most things we will want to control will 
>hop over usb to a net connection... although there are a few input 
>devices like magnetic card scanners that are moving to usb and would 
>be nice to easily access from rev.
>
>cheers,
>
>jeff

I just discovered a USB I/O device in Germany that can be used from 
Revolution. However, it uses AppleScript to talk to the hardware. It 
works under OS9 and OSX.

http://www.bkohg.com/index_e.html

Robert



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