USB devices

So, do you want to project and build USB devices? Something like one USB scale? one LCD display? or one special type of keyboard? So do I! Lets just say that today it's not that hard - with the proper uC and library you can build simple devices in just one day without much headache (Thanks to all that hard work done by the the open source community!). Welcome to my "online procrastination USB project learning share experience" ...

Don't get too much excited thought, we will just scratch the surface here (that's why I said "simple devices"). If you want to go deep into the USB devices be prepared for some long time reading books, specs and lots and lots of coffee - the USB spec is hard core (IMHO) - actually it is one of the the most complex protocols out there and it will take a while to learn all stuff required to make pro gadgets.

So, Hey Ho, Let's Go! let's see the arsenal that will help you to create your first awesome USB gadget:

uC Library	uC Family	hex Size	USB	Licensing
USBTiny	ATTiny / ATMega	+- 1350 bytes	1.1 low speed	GPL v2 or later
V-USB	AVR	+- 1400 bytes	Fully 1.1 compliant low-speed	GPL v2 or commercial
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Prototype Boards

Teensy 2.0 and Teensy++ 2.0

As far as I can tell the Teensy board was one of the first ATMEL based prototype boards with USB support

Arduino Mega ADK

The Arduino Mega ADK is nothing more than the Google ADK main board without that cute test board (the google ADK sold out in the first month). This board is based in the awesome work done by Oleg.

Arduino Leonardo

Arduino UNO R3

Arduino UNO R2

Arduino UNO R1

Arduino Micro

Platform USB Drivers

lib-usb

libusb-win32

Reference books

1. Online Book USB in a NutShell
2. USB Made Simple

V-USB tutorials:
AVR ATtiny USB Tutorial Part 1	Awesome tutorial.
AVR ATtiny USB Tutorial Part 2
AVR ATtiny USB Tutorial Part 3
AVR ATtiny USB Tutorial Part 4
V-USB tutorial continued: HID mouse
USB HID keyboard with V-USB

LUFA tutorials
1. Arduino USB Keyboard Passthrough

USBTiny tutorials

HID/USB Keyboard Repeater with Playback Homemade Hardware Keylogger/PHUKD Hybrid Decoding the NZRI data (USB SNIFFER) Ambitious Arduino newb. Any help with USB? SIAM32 USB HC Non-return-to-zero Interesting Keyboard development "evolution": http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=1561 This guy started to develop one keyboard with a full arduino ADK stack and then he figured out that the max34 was kinda under used ... http://hackaday.com/2011/10/06/hardware-based-keyboard-remapping/ http://41j.com/blog/2011/10/a-programmable-keyboard-controller/ Complete keyboard, from scratch! Mechanical Keyboard Guide Mechanical Keyboard Guide https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/tree/master/keyboard USB Keyboard Sample from PJRC (using push buttons) http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/usb_keyboard.html https://github.com/gimpster/Phantom-Keyboard https://github.com/arjan/ButtonKeyboardProject Generic Keyboard Driver for atmel/avr https://github.com/rhomann/kbupgrade http://hakshop.myshopify.com/collections/gadgets/products/usb-rubber-ducky

This creature is not totally ready yet and, please, fell free to post your comments and suggestions to feed this Tamagotchi ...

New Turnigy 9XR TX

For those whom still remember my previous post about the FS TH9X TX mods there is a welcome news: Hobby King is selling the new Turnigy 9XR TX - it's the resulting of all those mods you saw into my post and a few more.

I'm not sure what came into this TX yet. There are some obvious features in this new version like the new chassis, the AVRISP connector, the ER9X pre flashed firmware, the back light, the JR and Futaba training connectors, the 3S lipo battery, the internal antenna and others.

So, if you are a lazy bum or if you don't fell comfortable with the solder iron this is your chance to get a decent and cheap radio. IMHO this is the best radio in this range of price - even some expensive radios can't match it. Turnigy definitely is moving into the right direction getting all those mods into their project - it's proves they are listening to their customers.

I did just ordered mine and I'm excited waiting for it ...