Thanks for everyone's tips and hints. I WILL MAKE THIS WORK! I think I'll take your advice and use the serial port instead of the parallel port - I won't have that much data to send (in comparison with, for example, industrial level applications). As for on-board chips though, does this require low level programming!? Or can I have an embedded python interpreter for the chip?
Many thanks. Regards, -- Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list