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Originally Posted by erick
I should say more about DSLR Shutter. It is a Windows program as far as I understand (attached)
I've attached the options it gives for ports to connect to the camera. I successfully use "0x3BC-LPTx" for the parallel port on my old lappie.
From the message at the top, it looks like it is sad to not find a ShoeString DSUSB device attached. But that will cost me money. If I'm going to spend money, I'll just spend the $50 or so to buy an interval timer for my camera from Hong Kong.
So can I select one of the others, then go to a (particular) USB port and find a pin going up and down with the software operation? I suspect life is not that easy with USB.  |
Having a look at those piccies then I get the feeling that a USB to Parallel converter MAY work. But it may also not as it could be more hardware reliant and USB converters often don't facilitate hardware driving like on-board hardware does,
I'd definitely poke your son
You could easily have it receive a character from the computer and toggle an output, you'd only need a terminal program to do it too.