Extracurricular Activities Callaloo Radio System: Part 2 – Building a Homebrew USB Device Creating a homebrew USB device to get radio signal data onto a network.
Developer Tools Affordable CAN Bus Tools that Won’t Break the Bank The CAN bus is a cheap, robust and simplistic interface between microcontrollers wired together. Here are some low-cost alternatives to CAN bus sniffing.
Ruby Ruby FFI for Quick Prototyping A quick example of using FFI in Ruby to wrap HID API to talk to a USB HID device in Windows.
Extracurricular Activities Completing the Circuit: From Arduino to AVR Microcontrollers for Hobbyist Projects There are great resources for electronics beginners to learn Arduino—not for people who want to learn general microcontrollers.
.NET / WPF HIDSharp: USB HID Communications in .NET HIDSharp is a great little library for USB HID communication in .NET.
Embedded Systems Aliasing Serial Baud Rates in FTDI Drivers for Mac OS X I needed to interface my computer to an embedded device, and I found a way to configure a relatively cheap USB UART bridge to support it.
