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Old 04-25-2004, 04:15 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Scorpion23
There are companies that sell USB interface devices for your computer. For about $50 you can get an interface with up to 8 digital I/O ports and sample code for C++ and VB.

You can place a thermal sensor on one of the channels and some relays on the others.
Short answer is yes, it is possible.
Thermal sensors spit out analog data, though, and that has to be digitized for the computer to deal with it.
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