Reaching the real world

[Gary Richardson]

"Fuzzyman" <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1104850540.610295.152240 at f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I have a friend who would like to move and program lights and other
> electric/electro-mechanical devices by computer. I would like to help -
> and needless to say Python would be an ideal language for the
> 'programmers interface'.
>
> What I'd like is an electronic interface that connects to several
> relays and a python extension module to switch on and off the relays.
> I've had a quick google and can't see anything too similar to what I
> want. pyro (python robotics) seems to require expensive (relatively)
> robotic equipment.
>
> Does anyone know anything *similar* to what I have in mind, or have
> alternative suggestions ?
> Regards,
>
> Fuzzy
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
>

Take a look at:
http://www.geocities.com/hagtronics/pic_das/index.html

Very easy to interface to Python.