Newsgroups: sci.electronics.misc
Subject: Re: Sending Serial Data Stream Constantly
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"CWatters"  writes:

> "Luke Briner"  wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Do you mean a single board computer with, say an 68000 processor? Would I
> > then need to write the program in basic and upload it? The only embedded
> > programming I have done was at university but it was not real-time and so
> > I'm not sure how to program the timing required of the port.
> 
> On further investigation it looks like this has all been done before.....
> 
> Here is some software for the PC...
> http://users.pandora.be/freestylerdmx/begin.htm

A working software. 

Another software I can recommend is DMXControl from
http://www.dmxcontrol.de/
 
> it says it works with various DMX512 "Dongles" that hang off the printer
> port. Google found
> http://users.skynet.be/kristofnys/

I have built this and used that. 
This works well with DMXControl.

> see also
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=DMX512+dongle

More links to DMX-512 circuits and software can be found here:
http://www.epanorama.net/links/lights.html#dmx512


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