October 24, 2007, 6:39 am
Hello group,
I'm a hardware hacker from way back starting with the Amiga and recently
decided to get back into tinkering with electronics. I have bought a PIC
programmer and have just started to learn PICBASIC.
Anyway, I've made a pan controller for a wireless weatherproof cameraout of
salvaged parts from a scanner, a floppy drive and a homebrew 555 circuit to
provide the signal for the servo controller. This is all working OK with two
buttons to control left and right and could easily be interfaced to a PC
parallel port by controlling the output state of the pins. That part I have
no problem with.
Now, I want to interface this to a PC parallel port to control direction but
with a simple web interface so I can control the pan remotely but since
hardware is my forte and coding is not, I would like to know what would be
the easiest way to achieve this.
My controlling PC is needs to be an old laptop running Win98 which is
connected to the www through a router and my webpage will be on my providers
site.
Assuming I get this up and running, I aim to expand on this project.
I would be grateful for any suggestions that could point me in the right
direction :-)
I'm a hardware hacker from way back starting with the Amiga and recently
decided to get back into tinkering with electronics. I have bought a PIC
programmer and have just started to learn PICBASIC.
Anyway, I've made a pan controller for a wireless weatherproof cameraout of
salvaged parts from a scanner, a floppy drive and a homebrew 555 circuit to
provide the signal for the servo controller. This is all working OK with two
buttons to control left and right and could easily be interfaced to a PC
parallel port by controlling the output state of the pins. That part I have
no problem with.
Now, I want to interface this to a PC parallel port to control direction but
with a simple web interface so I can control the pan remotely but since
hardware is my forte and coding is not, I would like to know what would be
the easiest way to achieve this.
My controlling PC is needs to be an old laptop running Win98 which is
connected to the www through a router and my webpage will be on my providers
site.
Assuming I get this up and running, I aim to expand on this project.
I would be grateful for any suggestions that could point me in the right
direction :-)
Re: Noob help please with remote pan controller
Really all you need is a webserver like apache to do the cgi work
and notepad. Below are some info pages I have (the demo computers
have generally died over the years, but the info is still there)
for doing simple web based parallport read/write control over the
internet.
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