ok - I am new to robots. I have completed my first project (lighting up some led's and having an email buzzer (rather pointless as I had to turn the PC volume down to hear it)) - Anyway, I would now like to rig my Parallel port up to build a robot - I have some old CDROMs that I wish to control, but they need at least 9v (and should have 12v) to motor them - how can I do this when all I can get is 5v from ECP... - So, do I have to wire up some capacitors or something to build the voltage up? - I am lost but willing to learn, except a lot of the tutorials expect you to learn all electronics, and I need to learn as I go along - hope someone can point me in the right direction...
TIA - James