More about USB (289)

1-07-2010 | Many radio amateurs in practice use two receivers, one portable and the other a fixed receiver with a PC control facility. The Elektor DSP r...

1-07-2010 | A tilt sensor is a very versatile device: for example, it can be used as a (game) controller or as an alarm sensor to protect valuables. The...

1-07-2010 | Two years ago, I presented here the USB/TTL serial conversion cables from FTDI — wonderful communication and debugging tools. The increasing...

1-06-2010 | USB oscilloscopes are wildly popular, they represent a significant market and since 2005 quite a few have been tested and described in Elekt...

1-03-2010 | Passwords are important but also annoying. The more secure the password the more difficult it is to remember. This project based on the Elek...

1-02-2010 | This project implements a physical progress bar for Winamp. Here a small ATmega microcontroller uses the USB interface to provide a bidirect...

1-01-2010 | Lots of projects use the office computer or a laptop as the ‘brain’ – for example, for saving data, as a powerful controller, or for accessi...

1-01-2010 | This article is a quick guide to building firmware that will unleash the capabilities of Atmel’s advanced AVR-USB chip and especially its US...

1-01-2010 | If you want to have an intelligent circuit communicate with its companions, the standard approach is to use the omnipresent USB port or an I...

1-01-2010 | Herwe use a green glowing valve as a CPU activity meter. Power and control are both provided by the USB port. A simpler variant on the circu...