- Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:53 am
#63717
I'm trying to create a simple USB device that turns on one of five leds depending on a number from a php script. There would definitly need to be so sort of application running on the users machine to pull the value from the website and send it to the AVR. Although right now I'm only concerned with getting the USB device working with a computer right now. I've been looking into the AVR-USB library and USBtiny to do what I'm trying to do. I'm very new to the AVR scene and I hear USB is a very hard thing to do with the AVR platform, and that's why I need help. If anyone feels like they could lend some time to an art student trying to create a project for school it would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure for some pro out there they could do this in a few hours, it would take me months to get even half way there.
-update: I have been looking into the FTDI chips and they might be able to do what I want because of the simplicity of what i'm trying to accomplish. I've been reading about using the chip's bit-bang mode to control up to 8 output devices, which is three more then I need. plus on their site they have code examples to drive the chips. Has anyone used these chips do do something like this?
Thanks,
Tim
-update: I have been looking into the FTDI chips and they might be able to do what I want because of the simplicity of what i'm trying to accomplish. I've been reading about using the chip's bit-bang mode to control up to 8 output devices, which is three more then I need. plus on their site they have code examples to drive the chips. Has anyone used these chips do do something like this?
Thanks,
Tim