Also - I've been poking around the demo projects and have tried to open
some, but Visual Studio doesn't seem to recognize them as projects (running
on a Mac). In that case, what's the best way to edit and run them?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 7:00 PM Michelle Ran <michelleran...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I recently purchased a USB PIC18F87J50 PIM - which demo project would you
> recommend for a beginner mainly interested in data transfer?
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 9:13 AM Xiaofan Chen <xiaof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Michelle Ran <michelleran...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I've recently been experimenting with pyusb to try and learn how to
>> transfer
>> > data over USB, mainly using various USB devices I have lying around
>> (flash
>> > drive, mouse, Ethernet, etc.) However, I've been struggling to make
>> progress
>> > because I'm unfamiliar with USB and how these devices work - I often get
>> > errors like access denied (even when running with sudo), invalid
>> endpoint
>> > address, etc.
>> >
>> > That brings me to my question - what would be the simplest device to
>> > experiment with, that at least supports writing from the host?
>>
>> It is better to use a USB MCU device which you have access to the
>> firmware source code and can change the firmware. Many USB MCU boards
>> will fit the bill, from ST, Microchip/AVR, NXP/Freescale, etc.
>>
>> Depending on which MCU you are familiar with, then you can choose
>> from them. For example, I am mainly using an old USB PIC18F87J50 PIM
>> since I can build the FW since Microchip provides the USB stack which
>> provide quite some examples. I also have a few STM32 discovery kit which
>> I use less since I am less familiar with the FW side.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Xiaofan
>>
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