Does anyone know how to integrate programming into basics electronics?

Umm, let's get that part untangled before we go on to the rest.

John

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Compile it. See if it works.

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Three options:

serial port parallel port USB

Not if you're writing C++ code in a visual basic IDE!

Are you talking about driving real motors and such, or just modelling them in software? If you want to connect to the outside world, by far the simplest approach is to use the parallel printer port on a Win9x machine. You get 8 (or more) output lines to do with as you wish under software control. These can drive relays or switching transistors that then drive motors or whatever you want.

Th reason I said Win9x is that NT, XP, 2K, etc, don't allow direct port control. However, you can get special Ring 0 drivers that do allow this. (GIVEIO and USERPORT are two that I've heard of, but never tried.)

Since you are probably new to port programming, you might want to check out

They have lots of info on all kinds of ports, but the parallel is simplest to interface for this application.

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