[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Fuerig on blog.makezine.com

[Donald Delmar Davis]

No,

No matter what you do do the ftdi chip you cant make it into a native  
driverless usb keyboard, usb mouse, a usb midi device, a usb storage  
or any other class of usb device.
It is a serial device requiring drivers even to do that. Thile ftdi  
has done a decent job of providing drivers across the three major  
platforms including an api to bit fiddle with them its not the same as  
being able to write general purpose usb devices that behave the way  
you want them to. I will have to find the references on the Arduino  
lists which made me name the project after what happens when the  
italian left is ineffective.  What I remember distinctly was that the  
Arduino team was adamant and very blunt about the the ftdi chip  
staying in the design.

If you would like some related background you can also look at the  
Vvrfreaks thread that Joe at smiley micros started about the same  
time. http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=59670

Don.


On Sep 10, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Brian Richardson wrote:

> heh, actually, I was curious about the Arduino jab myself.  What's  
> the gig with that?  Isn't the "heavy lifting" of this on the  
> software side?  Couldn't you do this with an Arudino?
>
> 2008/9/10 Frank Canaan <fcanaan at gmail.com>
> Don,
>
> You're famous, again!
>
> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/ 
> make_flickr_pool_midi_par.html
>
> -- 
> -Frank Canaan
> fcanaan at gmail.com
>
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