I have a little experiece with Visual Basic 3.0, but I have not written code in quite a while.  I would like to write a stop watch program that would get inputs from external photoelectric sensors.  The sensors will be placed 200 feet apart on a pond to measure top speeds of radio controlled boats.  Is this possible?  Would there be any other hardware needed to link the photoelectric sensors to the computer?  I assume there might be a piece of hardware that plugs into a USB port and then the sensors can be linked up? 

Thanks for any help.

No offense but really...VB 3.0? You may be better off investing in a radar gun.



Good Luck

TallOne

Welcome to A1vbcode Black Out.

Ok you've used VB3 in the past but I'm assuming you have VB6 now? I would say you are going to need Microsoft Comm Control 6.0 - MSCOMM32.OCX to send and receive data. CDRIVE is our expert with this control so I would wait until he comes around?

I still use VB3 just for decompiling old apps.

Keith