Basic Stamps???

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Originally Posted by brooksware2000

Oh, that would be pretty simple but you don't want to use a motor for this. Either use a servo motor or a stepper motor out of a floppy drive. Go to www.parallax.com and look at the examples they have of interfacing to each.

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I went to the link you provided but I'm not sure what examples you are referring to.

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Originally Posted by Ricky327

Are you designing your own shutdown controller now or you still modifying the ITPS firmware?

You may wanna get some ideas from the one I already designed on post #4 :

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/general-hardware-discussion/24714-new-improved-atx-shutdown-unit.html

Got the hardware design, PCB and schematic apart from finalising the PIC code.

I think I have shown it to you already.

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I'm still modifying the heck out of the ITPS controller for now. I have integrated more functions into it thanks to the idea I got from reading your posts. I'm thinking of expanding the outputs of the 629 on the board so I can add a few more functions I'd like to have. Like the option to turn on/off a small heater element when the car is below a certain temp. Or to keep the pc from starting until the car reaches a certain temp. To do that, I need to expand the outputs/inputs. Heck, I have all the parts to duplicate the ITPS so I may just build one on a protoboard using another chip with better options.

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Originally Posted by Quattro-A4

I went to the link you provided but I'm not sure what examples you are referring to.

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here's the links to get you started:

http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/downloads/sw/sw.asp

check out articles 25 and 26 for ideas.

Hey Ricky, thanks for the link above, I hadn't read that one yet.

Thanks, I'll probably look at the other examples as well.