[E3-hacking] E2 hackery & coding

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

Matt Evans wrote:
> 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.

There's also the USBprog to tinker with.  Open Source drivers.

    http://www.embedded-projects.net/index.php?page_id=165

Cheers,


Ralph.