The concept of dead drops, where USB thumbdrives are installed in public places for the distribution of files “off the grid” has been a popular topic. Now Steve Schuler writes in with his new take on this concept currently featured … Read more
jeanmarc78 shared his Lightweight PicKit2 using USB serial LCD backpack in the forum: Then i decided to try to use the LCD backpack which has the same microcontroller as the basis for a lightweight PicKit2 programmer. In fact, the LCD … Read more
Umair Mukati wrote in to show off his project the ULTI-ISP USB key programmer which supports programming for AVR & 8051 microcontrollers: The ULTI-ISP can be used to program a wide range of AVR microcontrollers as well as 8051 series. … Read more
William Garrido writes, “I released the USB Tester OLED Backpack today and thought it would be good for you guys to post up. It is an add on for the USB Tester for measuring voltage and current. With the OLED … Read more
In this presentation from the recent 29C3 conference, Travis Goodspeed provides an interesting explanation of his from scratch implementation of a USB Mass Storage disk in user-land Python for the Facedancer board. . He also covers aspects of antiforensics are … Read more
The December 2012 issue of the Australian electronics magazine Silicon Chip features the USB Power Monitor. It uses a PIC18F45K80 to monitor the power consumption of a USB device. The board acts as a bridge between the host and the … Read more
Madox wrote a tutorial on how to setup the cheap TL-WR703N WiFi router to act as a wireless USB port for your Windows computer. This means that any USB device you attach to the router will be recognized by your … Read more
A few weeks ago we posted that the FT311D Android Open Accessory (AOA) ICs didn’t support AOA 2.0 devices. This has been rectified in the latest silicon revision (rev C.). The device required a change to enable connection to the … Read more
Avishay writes informing us of his recent project, a USB-to-serial adapter with a small display that shows the COM port number of the adapter once connected to the computer. The design is based on an 18F2553 dev board. Avishay reports … Read more
An open source USB stack for PIC microcontrollers has evolved in the forum over the last year. It supports a number of USB-enabled PICs, and a good developer would test each chip before each release. We’ve been crowd sourcing that … Read more
Guan Yang draws our attention to a new member of the FT232 family, the FT231X. I wanted access to more pins than your typical FTDI board provides, and realized that our friends at FTDI have designed a replacement for the … Read more
M-atthias was successful in running bitbang USB v1.1 on a MSP430G2452. It’s similar to the V-USB project that’s used on AVRs. It takes ~2kb of room on the microcontroller. Yes, this is similar to the efforts of V-USB for AVR, … Read more
Benjamin Lunt writes to inform us of a small hardware HID project which for which he’s developed a PCB. The device design was created by Joonas Pihlajamaa (Jokkebk) and posted on CodeAndLife where it’s very popular. Joonas’ device is a … Read more
In this talk from the DEFCON 20 conference, Phil Polsta, Computer Security Professor at the University of Dubuque discusses the relative insecurity of using USB “keys” as a way of restricting access to tech resources. He explains in detail how … Read more
András Veres-Szentkirályi, IT security expert, OSCP, GWAPT, writes, “I’ve built a device that acts as a USB HID keyboard, enters a script as a series of keystrokes into a PC, which can extract itself into an executable. This in turn … Read more
Here is TitanMKD’s USB current, and voltage tester designed on the DP5031 standard PCB. The board features 4 standard USB connectors, while voltage and current can be measured via 4mm banana terminals For those interested in a cheap funny board … Read more
Brad Antoniewicz has been exploring USB webkeys, the dongle devices used as marketing tools which guide Windows users to a seller’s webpage when plugged into the USB port. Essentially, webkeys function as a USB HID, emulate a keyboard and send … Read more
Qubbeks made a piece of software that lets you play with the FT245R USB to IO IC. It gives you an easy way to interface with electronics. Each pin can be both input and output, thus giving you 8 digital … Read more
Brian Carrigan informs us that he recently finished work on his USB business card project. “This business card plugs into a USB port of a computer and enumerates itself as a USB Mass Storage Class (a thumbdrive) which contains my … Read more
Cmdrk33n hacked the avr-cdc library to add the RS232 DTR signal output to one of the pins on his ATtiny MCU. Only a few lines of code need to be changed to implement his solution. Demonstrated in the above video … Read more
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