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csa3d:

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and can one purchase them from RadioShack or are they special order elsewhere?

-csa

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Those are generally called "terminal blocks" or just sometimes "terminals".  Radio Shack at one point sold them, but they appear to no longer carry them.  You can buy them from any large supplier (Digi-Key, Mouser, etc.) from lots of different manufacturers such as Phoenix Contact, OST, Weidmuller, etc.  Those are *NOT* "eurostyle".

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I've looked these up on mouser.  These look like they will work, yeah?


-csa

Blanka:
Just use an Arduino to control motors :D
Using a parallel port is not future proof anyway. USB will stay on PC's much longer. You can even have the Arduino work stand alone, as it is a computer by itself. It can both handle inputs and control motors, even PWM controlled.

richms:
Seconded on the Arduino - problem I have with the places I have deployed them around the place is I keep on taking them to try other things with.

Once you have the arduino there you can use it to do other things like driving LED/LCD displays, counting credits, limiting game play time, etc etc.

The development environment makes it a no brainer to code for. Even if you dont use it for this, get yourself a couple to just mess around with.

csa3d:
For those of us unfamiliar with an Arduino, can you link one you recommend?

Also, I just hooked up pin 9 into the original circuit diagram, this time INCLUDING the red highlighted section and was able to boot and shut down windows w/o the motor coming on!  I think I actually might have this thing working!  I want to run a few more tests, but so far it's looking good!

My circuit board looks like hell now lol, oh well.. maybe I'll remake it if I conclude success.  One thing I wasn't sure how to do was to plan out the wire routing under the perfboard to create my traces.  Is there some program everyone uses to make that simple or is it pretty much a learn as you go thing?

-csa

Blanka:
Just the basic Duemillanove.
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Buy

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