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Control Electrical Appliances using PC

Posted November 17, 2010 by Chris

Today’s project is a little write-up that shows you how to connect up a relay with some circuitry to a parallel port. This will then allow you to control any household appliance through software on your PC. The project write-up has the software, circuit diagram and explains how it all works.

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