Ron K. Jeffries schreef op do 01-09-2011 om 17:25 [-0700]: > It seems feasible that we [the royal "we"] could design a little dongle
Wait, the _royal_ we? The one the really means "I"? You're saying that you're going to design this thing? Cool! > that plugs into Ben's USB device port, and in turn provides > two USB ports that are special i.e. only support USB keyboard > and USB mouse. A driver on the Ben would talk take in serial > data carried over USB and send it to the correct linux driver. > the Keyboard and Mouse ports should be full size, naturally. This would become a bulky thing, possibly larger than the Ben itself. Not sure if that's very usable in practice. But if you (or anyone else) like it and design and build it, I'm not stopping you. :-) > And while we dream, given a BenDongle, one might incorporate > a cheap AVR chip and bring out a bunch of i/o pins. You might even > use the UBB on 8:10 port as a way to (occasionally) program the AVR chip. > If memory serves, Werner and Tuxbrain already proved that concept works. I think the AVR chip can as easily connect directly to the UBB, leading to a much smaller device. I don't think it is specifically useful to have these two things coupled. Also, if you want to get lots of I/O, you're going towards SIE. You might as well consider using instead of redesigning it. :-) Thanks, Bas _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
