Control a motor or a light using visual basic

[darkness_limits]

can anyone tell me how to control a motor or a light using visual basics (i know how o use visual basics but i don't know how to use it to control a motor or something)

 

[CRGreathouse]

How is it connected to the computer? Serial port?

 

[rcgldr]

Back in the days of Dos and Windows 95/98/ME, when programs could directly access ports, the pins of the parallel port could be toggle to drive a stepper motor. Normally only 4 pins were required for a standard stepper motor. In the old days, timer0 could be used to control the time intervals, but now Pentiums include a high speed timer that could be used instead.

For Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, you'd need a driver that provided an interface to control the motor.

You didn't specify how the PC interfaces to the motor.