On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 12:09 +0100, Michael Watterson wrote:
> On 30/08/2011 00:58, Joshua Shriver wrote:
> > I come from a programmer background, so not great at EE and everything
> > I know either came from being a ham or playing with PICS so things
> > like i2c and such are a struggle.
> >
>=20
> I2C and SPI are a doodle  compared to USB. USB is only easy if someone=20
> else has written drivers for YOUR host & OS for that gadget. Plug and=20
> Play is an illusion. It only works if the OS already has a driver for=20
> the gadget.

But that's exactly what we are talking about, a $25 SBC running Linux.
All the drivers are there, ready to go, just plug it in, with the proper
sensor no hardware work needs to be done at all, just software.

TTYL

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