How to control 8 servo motors with a PC ?
This document is intended to provide basic yet complete informations to the guy who wants to control up to eight servo motors with one LPT (printer) port. Soldering ability is needed, and some programming skills are needed, although full exe and source is provided for free. This little project could be used by teachers, as it is quite simple and cheap. With this, you can control 8 independent axis (!) and so build a good robot. You should use a PC running win95 with Delphi 3.0. But any other computer with precise timer should do the job. The programming tool used here is Delphi 3.0 (turbo Pascal + windows + object oriented programming) because it’s easy and quite as powerful as C. The cost of this project is max 1$ (wires…) without any servo…
