> If anyone could tell me how to do this simple thing without a > controller out there, I'd be pleased. USB is a message passing bus so you need a USB capable micro-controller board the other end. There are a variety of cheap single chip solutions for that plus little USB/serial convertors such as the CP2102. The robotics market also flogs a wide range of possibly useful devices of this kind. Ask google for "USB servo controller" and you'll find a whole range of USB widgets. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html