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>> No-one ever designs new hardware anymore and bemoans the lack of parallel port that would make their job easier. Did you even skim the article? Not only did
by iheartmemcache 10y ago
>> No-one ever designs new hardware anymore and bemoans the lack of parallel port that would make their job easier.
Did you even skim the article? Not only did he identify a painpoint (whether or not you feel it, he did), but he wrote a solution, took the PCB to production, and open sourced the whole thing. That's the exact opposite of most of the tech articles which sit around and complain about the lack of solution.
Hey OP, way to go man. Setup a Patreon, and I'll throw a tenner your way just to see what you come up with next. Like AvE, mikeselectricstuff, SpritesMods, you're a "do-er" and I'm sure whatever you do will be mighty interesting.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoKirrent said "new hardware", the one in the article is 20-ish years old.
- kirrent 10y agoLike I said, I understand the pain of interfacing with legacy hardware but I thought his solution demonstrated perfectly why we don't need a parallel port any more. I didn't mean to imply that OP was complaining about the lack of a parallel port and I enjoyed his post very much.
- qb45 10y agoTwo issues you are completely ignoring are "barrier to entry" and "PITA factor". I can control a bunch of LPT-attached LEDs with two lines of shell script or bitbang SPI/1W/whatever with a screenful of C. No reason to design one-off PCBs and make those external devices "smarter" than they need to be.