> I'm kicking round ideas re FTDI's RS232/USB chips.
> The project I have in mind is to operate a digital camera with a
> PIC. Dig Cams
> are all USB these days so I wuz sorta thinking maybe a setup
> something like ...
>
> PIC  --> FT245 (??) --> dig cam
>
> All the PIC needs to do is power up the cam then tell it to take
> a picture.
> Sound feasible? What do u reckon I would need to get started?

        No good. Do those FTDI chips do host mode? I ask because most digital
cameras are slaves, in which case only a host device will control them.
There is a new USB standard called USB2GO (IIRC) that supports slaves being
hosts, however very few devices out there support that. TTYL

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