{"id":92,"date":"2012-02-24T13:34:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T21:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2012-02-24T13:34:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T21:34:48","slug":"parallel-port-communication-with-peripheral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Parallel Port Communication with Peripheral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93 aligncenter\" style=\"line-height: 18px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial;\" title=\"16x2 LCD\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/16x2-LCD-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/16x2-LCD-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/16x2-LCD.png 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Use an old computer for a lab bench or just have one sitting around?\u00a0Chances are good that if it&#8217;s more than a few years old, it&#8217;ll have a parallel port on it. If you also run Linux and want to play around with I\/O you should take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2012\/02\/21\/who-couldnt-use-a-little-more-screen-space\/\">this project<\/a>. It&#8217;ll show you how to hook up a standard 16&#215;2 LCD character screen to your parallel port, create drivers for it, and then control it using redirects to \/dev\/my_lcd. \u00a0Very cool!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use an old computer for a lab bench or just have one sitting around?\u00a0Chances are good that if it&#8217;s more than a few years old, it&#8217;ll have a parallel port on it. If you also run Linux and want to play around with I\/O you should take a look at this project. It&#8217;ll show you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivers","category-lcd","category-pc","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}