Velleman K8000 - [Velleman K8000]
The Velleman K8000 is a computer interface board, a hardware card that allows you to control electric/electrical devices with your computer. To do this, the card has some electrical input & outputs available.
The K8000 runs on IBM compatible computers, and can be connected to your computer through a standard parallel cable. In most computers, there is only one parallel port available which is used for the printer. But nowadays, most printers are connected to the PC through an USB port. If you still have a parallel printer, you can connect it to the K8000 because there are 2 parallel ports available.
The card can be programmed in any programming language, like Visual Basic, C/C++, Qbasic, Turbo Pascal ... A floppy disk is shipped with the K8000, providing you samples for each of these samples. If you don't know much about programming, you can use my Power WinPLC (http://winplc.bvsystems.be) to program your K8000. This software provides you an easy environment to create applications for the K8000.
The K8000 provides you 16 I/O channels, which can be configured as in - or output. Digital inputs can read the state of switches ... The outputs can set relays etc. The K8000 has also 9 analog inputs and 4 analog outputs. View more information about the K8000 on the Velleman website.
The next photo gives you a little idea on how the interface card looks like. You can see the card in detail and get a brief description when you click on the image. This picture shows how the interface card really looks like. You can click on certain parts of the image to get a little description about the components and what their function is.
There is almost nothing you can't do with this interface card, so we can only give you a little idea on what you could do with the card.