Re: Connecting a Linux box to a Soda Machine

From: Philip Dodd (pd_at_phildoddNOSPAMfreeserve.co.uk)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: 23 Mar 2004 06:54:56 GMT

On 22 Mar 2004 12:56:05 -0800, Matthias <thias@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>When i started thinking about this, i started to realize that hooking
>up the wires from the RJ11 to the serial, would be a difficult
>exercise in EE. I've decided not to do that.
>

Couldn't you just adopt a joystick which plugs into a sound card ? Joysticks
have various switches and rotary controls. The drivers exist in Linux and
there is a strong likelihood of you being able to adopt the code from a game
to get the information that you want from the soda machine.

Philip Dodd 

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