Robotics and parallel ports

[Isaac T Alston]

Thanks for everyone's tips and hints. I WILL MAKE THIS WORK! I think I'll
take your advice and use the serial port instead of the parallel port - I
won't have that much data to send (in comparison with, for example,
industrial level applications). As for on-board chips though, does this
require low level programming!? Or can I have an embedded python
interpreter for the chip? 

Many thanks.

Regards,

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Isaac