[E3-hacking] E2 hackery & coding

[Matt Evans]

On 13 Nov 2008, at 15:26, David Given wrote:

>
> Semirelated: what's the easiest way of hooking up an I2C/SPI device  
> to a
> PC? Given that most computers these days have about a dozen such buses
> in them, it should be easy --- but I'm not convinced about the  
> wisdom of
> connecting random bits of dev hardware to critical peripheral buses.

Personally I'd use an AVR to drive it & forward stuff to its UART.  Or  
the Obdev USB stack for AVR -- check out the USBasp programmer, that  
is effectively a "USB to SPI" adapter.  I'm using that USB software a  
fair bit as I don't have a computer with a real UART (non-USB I mean)  
anymore...  progress, eh.


Cheers,


Matt