Wednesday, February 17, 2010

connecting to USB

The USB port can be used to power a chip, ATTINY, ATM168 and send/receive data at the same time.

You can connect to FLASH for instance using serial proxy.
You can connect sensors to the chip and send the data to the laptop.
You can build your own buttonboard (usb interface keyboard)
And also you can build your own programmer!

The only things you need is a chip, USB connector, a few zenerdiodes and resistors, capacitors.

links: http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html (with lots of example projects!)


to make your own programmer:  http://www.fundf.net/usbasp/

or to order a DIY kit, about 17 euro.....

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