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#1 2009-12-31 00:25:41
- Benedict_White
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How do I interact with a USB device?
Odd question perhaps, but I have just bought, and it arrived today, something called a UBW32. It seems to work, contains a PIC32 series MCU and has a basic system where you can communucate to it and get it to do basic things.
On Windows you would talk to it over hyperterm. It comes up as /dev/ttyACM0 and all I need to do is open somekind of terminal session to it.
Any suggestions?
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#2 2009-12-31 07:03:18
- ewaller
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Re: How do I interact with a USB device?
try gtkterm, putty, or minicom.
These are all serial terminal emulators and should allow you to talk to devices that map themselves as /dev/tty*
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#3 2009-12-31 12:23:51
- Benedict_White
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Re: How do I interact with a USB device?
GTKterm works very well thank you! I can now play with my new toy to my hearts content!
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#4 2009-12-31 12:43:38
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Re: How do I interact with a USB device?
If you want to automate stuff i.e. make a program that talks to it, have a look at python-pyserial.
I need a sorted list of all random numbers, so that I can retrieve a suitable one later with a binary search instead of having to iterate through the generation process every time.
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#5 2009-12-31 23:39:55
- Benedict_White
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Re: How do I interact with a USB device?
Cheers (And a Happy New Year!) TLVB, I wonder if there is similar for perl, as I don't do Python yet but do a bit of perl.. that said I am looking to build systems that run with out connections to PC's, though they may end up with web interfaces etc. I have got an LED turning on and off.. not exciting stuff, but I hope it will be. I can also program the device with any code I want over USB.
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