One of the most common way to interface a microcontroler to a computer used to be serial port. But right now, serial port have been replaced with USB on most computers. A common way to fix this issue is to use a USB to TTL converter or a USB to RS232 converter + MAX232. That’s [...]
admin September 11th, 2010
This is not the first time, I break a USB Drive. And I already heard some people complaining about the same stuff. But how is this possible ? Even if I use it a lot, memory and micro-controller are robust you know, no special reason for a failure (except of course some anormal write, but [...]
admin April 30th, 2008
Some friends buy me a nice MP3 player for my car last year (birthday): LAC-M6500R
This stuff looks great and you can even plug a hard-drive. The main issue is that the firmware only support 999 files on a single USB device, so that’s enougth for ~4Go of MP3 but not more. So I decided to [...]
admin March 4th, 2007
Not really, but this nice Tux droid, can be pluged in USB, and the commands are sent via a Python DBUS binding. Hum a stupid question, can we use the Python USB API directly ?
With time, Python really became a powerfull tool for hardware hackers :) That’s perhaps why I like it so much ?
admin August 10th, 2006
This is quite easy, but the doc is too old.. so:
Download latest eagle-usb
Untar
make
make install
eagleconfig (to enter your config..)
rm /etc/init.d/eagle-usb (this doesn’t work on debian ..)
eaglectl -w (to load kernel modules and so on..)
startadsl
admin August 10th, 2004