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Do you need a circuit that periodically generates a pulse to trigger your machine with no user intervention?
How long should the trigger last?
How long before the next trigger happens?
What voltage level does it take to trigger the machine?
Suppose you could turn a relay on/off via USB, a serial port, or a parallel port on your computer, are up to creating the program that would control it?
There is off-the-shelf hardware available to control a relay from a computer, but it requires creating a program in Visual Basic, or other programming language.
Read this thread in the other forum. It seems like this deals with your topic.
The voltage levels that come out of a serial port are well documented. A circuit that would pull-in a small relay based on the state of the DTR or RTS line in a serial port is something I can post here.
Or Google is your friend: use "control a relay with serial port" as the search keywords.
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