Re: USB Blinken Lights

I don't know of any, unfortunately.  The easiest thing to do might be to 
take control of a USB keyboard and toggle its LEDs.  The commands should 
be fairly easy (standard), although I'm not entirely sure if the Linux HID 
module will correctly let go of it.

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Elliotte Harold wrote:

>Anyone know of a simple device that's operated purely over the control 
>channel? Possibly in write-only mode? Perhaps something as simple as a 
>light or LED that can switch on or off.
>
>I'd like to be able to show some sort of demo of this stuff relatively 
>early with just the UsbDevice class without having to first introduce 
>UsbConfiguration, UsbInterface, UsbEndpoint, and finally UsbPipe. By the 
>time I work my way through all that, I'm afraid my audience will have 
>departed for dreamland if I haven't actually shown them a simple working 
>program that accomplishes something.
>
>Possibly I could even hook up such a device myself, but I'm not a 
>hardware person by training, so I'd be more comfortable with a 
>prepackaged solution that doesn't require me to read circuit diagrams. 
>
>

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