Camera Panner with parallel port controlled floppy drive!
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Hey guys, I just connected an old floppy drive to my computer's parallel port and wrote a program to control its stepper motor. The stepper motor is attached to a camera..so when it moves, it turns a camera! Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2006/11/camera-panning-using-parallel-port.html[^]. I've also included some YouTube videos. Now, its on Coding4Fun's news section!: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/archive/article.aspx?articleid=1185498[^]. Hope you find it interesting, Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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Hey guys, I just connected an old floppy drive to my computer's parallel port and wrote a program to control its stepper motor. The stepper motor is attached to a camera..so when it moves, it turns a camera! Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2006/11/camera-panning-using-parallel-port.html[^]. I've also included some YouTube videos. Now, its on Coding4Fun's news section!: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/archive/article.aspx?articleid=1185498[^]. Hope you find it interesting, Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
Is the CP article ready? :)
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Hey guys, I just connected an old floppy drive to my computer's parallel port and wrote a program to control its stepper motor. The stepper motor is attached to a camera..so when it moves, it turns a camera! Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2006/11/camera-panning-using-parallel-port.html[^]. I've also included some YouTube videos. Now, its on Coding4Fun's news section!: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/archive/article.aspx?articleid=1185498[^]. Hope you find it interesting, Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
That's pretty cool. :) I once considered cannibalizing a R/C toy and using the components to control a homemade pan/tilt platform. I figured I could get a USB hub, and plug the transmitter and receiver into a port for power and control.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Is the CP article ready? :)
Lol..not yet. :D
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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That's pretty cool. :) I once considered cannibalizing a R/C toy and using the components to control a homemade pan/tilt platform. I figured I could get a USB hub, and plug the transmitter and receiver into a port for power and control.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
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Hey guys, I just connected an old floppy drive to my computer's parallel port and wrote a program to control its stepper motor. The stepper motor is attached to a camera..so when it moves, it turns a camera! Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2006/11/camera-panning-using-parallel-port.html[^]. I've also included some YouTube videos. Now, its on Coding4Fun's news section!: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/archive/article.aspx?articleid=1185498[^]. Hope you find it interesting, Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
Cool! Oh the days of playing with the parallel port...
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