I've just finished building one for about £8 and I'm now to write a
Windows9x driver for it. Here's a hint: don't waist money on relays when a
4067 chip can provide the signal driving you need! It can be powered from
the parallel port and will drive 16 buttons from 4 data line inputs. All you
do then is link various resistors up to the outputs so they contact across
pins 2 and 4 of the remote. If you're really sneaky, you can read the data
from pins 1 and 3 to get titles etc back into the PC too!
Magic
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 10:36 PM
Subject: MD: PC to MD interface projects
>
> I was about to start building the MZ-R55 to PC parallel port interface as
> detailed on Bazza's page until the grown-up that I'd enlisted to do the
> actual work pointed out it was going to cost over 50 Pounds for the
> electronics components alone! (mainly the SPDT relays and transistors, 10
> each). I've paused to consider other ways first...
>
> Now then, I've had a peek at Thomas Meier's "Title-Aid" for Sharp
portables
> and he manages to build a similarly functioning PC interface for about 10
> Dollars!! http://www.ncc-mannheim.net/user/meierth/MD70X.HTML
>
> Can anyone comment on if/how the Thomas Meier solution could be adapted
for
> the Sony MZ-R55?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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