Triggering a Hardware Project with a Parallel Port

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Triggering a Hardware Project with a Parallel Port

Mike Szczys of Hack A Day wrote in with this guide to hacking parallel ports on old computers.

It turns out it’s super easy to use the parallel port (most likely hasn’t been used for years IF your machine has one) to trigger external electronic projects. I’m using an NPN transistor to use pin 1 of the parallel port as if it were a button connected to my ATtiny13.

4 thoughts on “Triggering a Hardware Project with a Parallel Port

  1. Anonymous says:

    Not just an interface, you even can use a parallel port as ISP  programmer for your atmega controller!

  2. Bob Darlington says:

    I wrote an article on Linux parallel port programming back in ’97: http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=50&id=11#article    The code may still compile cleanly but haven’t tried in years.

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