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

[Brian Richardson]

Ah cool.  I didn't know there was an actual USB MIDI standard!  So no driver
needed, you just made the Benito say "I'm a USB MIDI device" and everything
just worked?  That makes that video much cooler! ;)

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Donald Delmar Davis <ddelmardavis at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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