Electronics Forum / Electronics / April 2004

There are two commonly used approaches:

1) Hook the pulse train up to a serial port line or parallel
   port line and do the timing on the PC.  There are Linux and
   Windows drivers for both of those approaches.  Schematics
   for the H/W interface can be found in various places on the
   web, like this:

   http://www.heliguy.com/nexus/fmsinterface.html
   
2) Buy or build a "cable" that contains a microprocessor (it
   usally seems to be a PIC of some flavor) that doest the
   timing and sends a data stream via USB or RS-232. There are
   a bunch of these to choose from as well:

   http://www.tti-us.com/sim/prod-USB.html    
   http://www.rctrainer.com/
   http://www.rc-electronics.co.uk/jsim.htm
   http://jadac.dynip.com/prod01.htm    
   http://www.mh.ttu.ee/risto/rc/electronics/pc2rcv2.htm

   The one I use, I bought from:

   http://www.mattclement.freeservers.com/fms/fms.html

There are a bunch more links at

http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index_e.html

look for Commercial Radio-Interfaces/Radio-Joysticks
   

I didn't see the cross posting.

Is this for robotics, or FMS? I have written some code to read an analog
joystick, and takl to FMS.

Mike