Honestly, I cant give you an authoritative answer, but considering that some
USB flash 'drives' or mp3 players have a firmware upgradeable micro
controller on it, if those could master their USB bus, there you would have
something that could initiate the transfer from a non intelligent peripheral
device...
Sounds like a worthy hack to be searched form.
A USB hub with CPU, memory, keyboard, wifi etc. plugged in could quickly
evolve into the next generations of wearable computers...


On 7/29/07, Howard Winter <HDRW@h2org.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a "reverse" USB to serial adaptor?  That is, one into
> which a USB peripheral is plugged, and which produces a serial output - in
> this case it's a GPS receiver with a USB interface and I want to use it
> with something that isn't a PC and which expects RS232.
>
> I suppose it's a tricky thing to do, since the USB interface is
> intelligent, and the peripheral won't just send data until it's done the
> enumeration thing -
> but I thought I'd ask just in case it's been done!  :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
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