[Sussex] Digital IO card

[Phil]

I would suggest that whatever you get make sure it is supported by comedi.
http://www.comedi.org/

There are a few other libraries / programs / toolkits that are able to access io control stuff, both 
Digital and Analog, that depend on comedi, it would seem to be the leading driver layer for this 
kind of stuff.

It also has a driver for the printer port (the only one I have had anything to do with) which might 
be usefull for proof of concept kind of stuff.  It's even RT friendly if you need to go that far.

I have only used this in a very limited way with my own toying around at home with the printer port 
but remember the opto isolators for the safety of the gear.

Hope this helps.






Brendan Whelan wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> We have a system which is used in a Blood Transfusion lab. I want to add 
> a digital IO card to a Fedora Core 3 system so that I can flash some 
> alarm lights when the user needs to attend to an urgent request for blood.
>  
> Has anyone recommendation for a simple digital IO card that has a Linux 
> driver.
>  
> Many thanks, Brendan Whelan
> 
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