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<blockquote data-quote="Marcusb" data-source="post: 20404" data-attributes="member: 11550"><p>I like the idea of a recording LED. I was actually only thinking about this yesterday.</p><p>The only hardware needed would be one LED and one Resistor.</p><p>All that is needed is to send a data bit to one of the parallel pins. Pre Win 2000/XP all that was needed was a command like echo 255 > LPT1 to send Pin 8 hi. Since newer windows has the Hardware Abstraction Layer this needs to be a little more advanced, but the threory is still the same. If you can send a command directly to the LPT port to raise one of the pins to data level 5v then an LED will work fine with approximately 20 cents worth of electronic components.</p><p></p><p>It would be just as easy to configure up to eight different leds to turn on for any events.</p><p></p><p>Any devs like the idea of this enough to look into? Maybe the external display plugin could easily be adapted for the simplest type of external display ever?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcusb, post: 20404, member: 11550"] I like the idea of a recording LED. I was actually only thinking about this yesterday. The only hardware needed would be one LED and one Resistor. All that is needed is to send a data bit to one of the parallel pins. Pre Win 2000/XP all that was needed was a command like echo 255 > LPT1 to send Pin 8 hi. Since newer windows has the Hardware Abstraction Layer this needs to be a little more advanced, but the threory is still the same. If you can send a command directly to the LPT port to raise one of the pins to data level 5v then an LED will work fine with approximately 20 cents worth of electronic components. It would be just as easy to configure up to eight different leds to turn on for any events. Any devs like the idea of this enough to look into? Maybe the external display plugin could easily be adapted for the simplest type of external display ever? [/QUOTE]
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