MyUSB Projects
Thanks to all who’ve been sending me word on where MyUSB is ending up. I really get a kick out of seeing it incorporated into some very interesting projects, and I’ve been adding links to the projects I know of on the MyUSB project page.
Congratulations to Sean D’Epagnier for getting his Magnetometer mouse sold on Sparkfun. Sean was kind enough to send me a free unit partially for my help getting the MyUSB powered portion of the device working, and partially so I could test out the device in the sothern hemisphere. I posted a small rundown of the device previously, but go check it out again if you missed it the first time. It’s quite a neat product, and works a little like a tethered Wii controler, in that roll, pitch and yaw of the device controls the cursor on the screen.
I was alerted yesterday to another project built with the MyUSB library, however unfortunately for me the site for it is written in German. A quick Google translation later and I now have the jist of the project – it’s a 868MHz wireless protocol analyzer powered by an onboard AT90USB162 AVR microcontroller. I haven’t the faintest idea what the 868MHz band is used for, so if you are more clued in than I, please leave a comment. The dongle looks quite professional, and no-doubt is being heavily used by whoever it is that uses 868MHz communications. I look forward to being illuminated on its exact purpose.
I’m also pleased by the number of members who have signed on to the new MyUSB Support Google Group in the last week. There’s already been a bit of good discussion about the project (or topics related to MyUSB in some way) so I do suggest that all those interested come and join in — you might learn something!
Currently in my idle time at University between classes I’m investigating Ray Tracing, by writing a simple ray tracer in Java. Once I get my spheres lit by some proper lighting via rays traced from the primary ray/sphere intersection I’ll post some screenshots. For now, it’s just a lot of uninteresting multicoloured spheres.
