Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I don't know the answer but I suspect the best place to start looking is the Mame Cabinet building scene.
OK, thanks. I have no idea what that means but I'm sure Google will inform me!
Does it have to be USB ? I am assuming that some coin selectors have simple switch or digital outputs that it would be trivial to interface to a parallel port ? or you could shove a PIC in the way and do it in serial
A lot of them seem to be a serial or USB, but the main reason it needs to be USB is that I'm thinking of interfacing it to a Linutop (http://linutop.com) which only has USB ports. Serial via a PIC would probably be easier for me because I've already written an RS232 interface to a PIC at university for a light sensor, so detecting a few on and offs should be easy.
I could use a different thin client computer I suppose...
Thanks for the advice