A little background info first. At my church I am a leader for the Royal Rangers, like cub scouts,. We have an annual pinewood derby race th first was last year, we built a track, I donated an old computer that has a parallel port and built a 4 lane judge, got the source code from pinewood derby group on yahoo and it works.
The problem is the hard drive in the old computer died, the program will run on vista except I cannot set up the track because my laptop does not have a parallel port. I can probably find another computer but if what I want to do will work it will be a permanent solution. The track basically sends a start signal to the computer, the timer starts counting,when the cars cross the IR detectors the computer stops counting, and displays the results.
The big question game contolers are basically switches so are IR detectors, could the race timer source code be altered to use the d ...
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