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Rolling Your Own USB Devices?

Posted by Cliff on from the garage-built-peripherals dept.

greasyHacker asks: "Back in the old days when every computer under the sun had a parallel port, it was quite easy to whip up a simply parallel port device of some sort, and pretty easy to write software for it.. Now that USB is here and standard, I'd like to make use of the 'power of USB' and roll my own devices. Specifically I'd like to start with a simply interface box that allows me to control a number of simply on/off out/input channels - much like this. (Then maybe fulfilling some other ideas later).. Can anyone suggest where to get information on such a project, both the hardware and the driver side of things?"

5 of 46 comments (clear)

  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    suck it! even if im not first

  2. What the fuck is a "simply interface"? by Wakko+Warner · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is it like that Simply Soda shit you can get at Wal-Mart?

    - A.P.

    --
    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  3. The word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    is SIMPLE. Not SIMPLY.

  4. *cringe* by wizbit · · Score: 0, Troll
    ...easy to whip up a simply parallel port device of some sort...
    ...start with a simply interface box
    ...a number of simplysimply on/off out/input channels

    DUDE.

    the word is SIMPLE!

    :)

  5. Re:How the fuck did you get your +2 back? by Lee+Cremeans · · Score: 0, Troll

    Learn the ways of the Karma, young Jedi. You will soon be able to wh0re and burn with the best of them.

    -lee