Serial Port driver to PC

Yes, if you have a look at RoboRealm at

Let us know if you need any help with that.

STeven.

There are Java libraries for serial communication. Add a MAX232 and you're away. Course you have to use Java which might not suit.

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Hi,

mscomm32.ocx?

Do you plan for RoboRealm to remain free forever, or eventually charge = for it ? Just curious ...

I've been playing with "just basic" for reading data from a PIC micro via the serial port. I've only really used a windows interface, defined by the program but I have read on comp.lang.basic.misc about people using Liberty Basic for writing a web interface.

regards, colin

I made a simple cgi application using freebasic for web based I/O with the lynxmotion ssc-2 servo controller (below). You could easily do the same using apache as your web server.

I did pretty much the same but with the WinIO driver from here:

-- Gordon

Come to think of it, I used WinIO for the parallel port stuff, and MSComm (part of the VS6 package) for the serial communications.

So...never mind!

-- Gordon

Many thanks for all the posts, Yes first of all I wanted to do a generic "cross platform" app or webpage but i think for now I will choose a OS get it up and running and then port it to the other OS'es.

many thanks again

Hi

I was at

It should be easy to find examples for your micro to interface to a serial port.

Try forums for PIC:

Web search engine.

By the way, does it have to be serial? The Microchip ENC28J60 is pretty easy to interface to Web intefface, as it only has 28 pins and I got some free samples off microchip and you use a Web browser and Cat-5 cable...

Microchip has a new kid on the block the 18F67J60, integrated Ethernet/PIC on the same silicon.

Also Fred Eady at

/* He has a new kit that has ethernet and serial onboard */

Microchip has a free stack and sample code - all you need to do is modify some HTML etc.

Also the RealTek ethernet chip is featured often interfacing with PICs.

Cheers

:-]

Dale

Len wrote:

If you can communicate with the microcontroller via the serial port on a pc, then you probably can run a webserver like apache to handle the web page part. I made a simple cgi application to be able to communicate with a Lynxmotion ssc-32 servo controller via apache and a web page. The below link has a quick write up on the application.