Tag Archives: USB
Conduct a symphony of servos with these USB servo controllers
Posted on18. Mar, 2011 by ModuleTronics.
Whether you’re building a robot, actuating a doorknob, or just need any other electronically controllable physical movement, hobby servos will usually do the trick thanks to their availability, low cost, and relatively high precision. But how do you control one or even two dozen of them simultaneously through your computer?
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USB to serial mini modules
Posted on07. Jun, 2009 by ModuleTronics.
Adding USB support to your project isn’t the easiest thing to do. You have to worry about the driver stacks on the host computer and a bunch of other details which make the USB interface really unfriendly to the hobbyist especially when compared with the simplicity of a serial or parallel interface. Because of this, [...]
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MAKE Controller & I/O board
Posted on04. May, 2009 by ModuleTronics.
The MAKE Controller is similar to an Arduino except it uses a different Atmel AVR chip. However, the board aims to make it easy for the hobbyist to use the surface-mount chip by including all of the supporting circuitry such as oscillators, voltage regulator, etc. The board was created by the people who write the [...]
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Tutorial: Servos and Pots with the Arduino
Posted on28. Apr, 2009 by ModuleTronics.
This great video shows you how easy it is to wire-up a potentiometer to an Arduino microcontroller board, read the resistance value, and then control a standard hobby servo in unison. The simple software reads the analog to digital converter to read the pot value and then does a simple calculation to arrive at the [...]
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Phidgets add USB sensing and control to your computer
Posted on05. Apr, 2009 by ModuleTronics.
If you like to build projects using a regular computer as the main control center, whether it’s due to needing the processing power or that you are familiar with programming on the platform, you may feel left-out when you’re viewing the wide variety of electronics modules available. It seems that most pre-build electronics modules are [...]
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Cheap Xilinx FPGA experimentation board
Posted on02. Apr, 2009 by ModuleTronics.
Field Programmable Gate Arrays, or FPGAs, are high-speed chips which are filled with thousands of structures called logic blocks. These blocks allow you to build, using a specialized electronics programming language like Verilog or VHDL, a custom circuit on the chip to do whatever you need done in your circuit. The FPGA offers much of [...]
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108 input USB keyboard interface
Posted on28. Mar, 2009 by ModuleTronics.
If you need to easily interface many digital inputs with a computer, the Hagstrom Electronics KEUSB108 should be on your list to look at. It features a whopping 108 digital inputs which connect to your computer via a standard USB connection. The great thing about this is that the USB device does not require any [...]
