Microcontroller via USB

Michael Shiloh michael at openmoko.org
Fri Feb 20 17:10:58 CET 2009


Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Sven Klomp <sven at klomp.de> writes:
>>> I don't know if there are libusb wrappers for python. However, if your
>>> device acts as a serial port you can just open /dev/ttyACM0 in python
>>> and talk to it without having to know anything about USB.
> 
>> Yes, but the implementation on the microcontroller side is a little bit more 
>> complicated.
> 
> But there are simple examples for CDC.

If you're interested in getting up and running as quickly as possible, 
and don't care about size, why not use Arduino, at least for the first 
stage proof of concept? Arduino is known to work with Openmoko.

Arduino is based on Atmel, so it proves it can be done, and that all the 
software is available openly.



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