Questions tagged [usb]
USB is Universal Serial Bus. If your question relates to a specific chip, please mention it in your question.
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Control GPIO pins using USB
What is the easiest way to make a device that can control GPIO pins using USB?
Can I make a device similar to this on my own without any special hardware?
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Converting wireless controller to wired one
I bought one controller (PS3 QuickAct) from flea market guessing that it is bluetooth one, but turns out it requires USB receiver.
I opened the controller and it have an transmitter module attached ...
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How to connect the male Usb end to micro usb(male) end of a mini powrer bank
I have Portable Power Bank Magnetic Interface Phone Charger with micro usb. This is good for my phone. But My smart watch has a charger with one end having a magnetic dock to be connected to watch and ...
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Converting wireless mouse
I saw this question in one of the electronics sites, and many answered him that converting wireless mouse will zap the PC (USB ports) . The question was:(( I am trying to convert a wireless mouse to a ...
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How Would you Communicate using single RS232 COM Port, 2 USB ports and 1 USB 3 port, with 20+ components [on hold]
I need to send/receive analog signals 0-5V to/from 20+ components so I can control them using a Java Swing App I am writing. (transducers, solenoids, actuators that type of stuff).
I have the ...
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USB Strange behavior
I am porting the USB driver from the STM32F4 device to STM32L4 device. It almost works. During the enumeration it sends and receives the information, but the data is not exactly the same as from the "...
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Android usb communication - How to set a non-standard baud rate for read and write data? [on hold]
I would like to know if in adroid it is possible to have baud rates different from the default ones for usb communication with a pcb / arduino board, I would like to send a frame with a particular ...
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How to disconnect 3.7V battery when USB is connected (boost)
I am developing a circuit which enables me to charge a lithium battery and boost the output voltage up to 5V for a microcontroller. My boost converter is the MT3608, and the charging circuit is the ...
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What would be the recommended way of making a USB meter/controller [closed]
I would like to make a “USB monitoring device” with one USB power input and two USB power outputs.
The needed features are:
voltage metering
current metering
sense an output being used
individual ...
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Supplying TTL Signal via USB
I have two pieces of hardware I'd like to interface with via USB. The first are 2002 Series Actuated Valves and the second is a Mass-Flo Controller for regulating gas exchange. To my (admittedly ...
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Can I use USB data pins as a power source?
I'm trying to build a circuit as seen below, where a sequencer controls the flashing of some LED sections, and an SPDT switch controls power to either the left or the right section of LEDs.
However, ...
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wire to board connector for USB 3.0
I have an unusual connector, I know this cause I can't seem to locate a connector that will connect to it.
I know what it does but can't find a source to build my wire cable I need. I can find the ...
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Using USB to IDE converter from external hard disk with DVD drive [migrated]
My current laptop no longer has an optical drive. Since I have a spare IDE DVD drive and a 500 GB Western Digital Bookcase external HD sitting around, I thought of ripping the USB to IDE converter ...
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MSP getting powered up from GPIO
On a demo board I have, USB 5V rail is connected via a resistor divider to one of the GPIO's of MSP. MSP itself is powered from PCIE 3v3AUX rail.
In one of the cases when the board is not connected ...
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How do USB to serial adapters work?
I'd like to know how a USB to serial adapter (such as the FTDI FT232RL chip) works.
The way I think it does is the following:
Picture a system composed of a MCU, a USB to serial adapter and the PC ...
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Current limit a bus-powered usb 3.1 hub
I'm currently designing a bus-powered usb 3.1 hub. It will use a USB-C for UFP and 3 USB-A downstream. The hub will only be acting as a sink.
As of my understanding, since it may be connected to USB ...
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How to efficiently trigger QC and convert it to constant 5V and a peak of 5A?
Introduction
For a university project I started working on RGB LED Shutter glasses, which are based on the idea of a kickstarter by Macetech. However, these glasses miss some features I was looking ...
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Send data from PC to USB [closed]
I want to send data from PC to microcontroller via USB and vice versa with Communication Class.
I have used USB to Serial applications like Putty or RealTerm but they work only for COM Port and not ...
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What are these solderless (IDC) USB connectors called?
I was salvaging the connectors from a fraying micro usb cable (that came with an LG G4 phone) and found that the connectors have a unique construction (see image below, Source: https://www.alibaba.com/...
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Making a power supply for a 5V USB
I am making a battery bank for portable LED projects. The battery bank has a 5V 12A (60W) DC to DC converter DDR-60L-5. I would like to add some extra (nice to have) USB Female plugs to this battery ...
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jerky USB keyboard signal
I have made this contraption in order to quickly switch one keyboard between a PC and a laptop:
The keyboard hooks into USB_A and it gets routed to either J1 or J2 depending on the position of a 3PDT ...
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Thunderbolt 3 connecting to USB 3.1
I know that Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB Type-C port, and I know that you can plug a USB cable into a Thunderbolt port and it will function as USB or Thunderbolt depending on the peripheral.
However, ...
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Voltage detected across Micro USB cable shielding
I designed a Keyboard PCB using an ATmega32U4 with the data lines wired up to a Micro-USB B Receptacle. Brand: Molex; part number: 1050170001. The USB ground is directly connected to the Micro-USB B ...
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RPi USB to Serial testing
I have a system like this:
RPi -> FTDI(USB UART IC) -> RS485 transceiver -> RS485 TO USB board -> PC
I'm having some trouble testing RS485 communication between the RPi and the PC.
I'm using a simple ...
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Linux Drivers for FT232R [closed]
Background
I am trying to build a USB Bridge circuit as part of a larger project.
What I mean by that is, I wish to control a parallel out circuit based on information transmitted by the host ...
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Will cutting data line of USB port can supply the right amount of current it is attached to?
I want to use a USB cable and an AC to DC adapter as a supply to my electronics project. I plan to connect the USB cable to the USB port on the AC to DC adapter then I will cut the other end of the ...
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USB Type-C DRP Integrated Switch/Interface Chip
I would like to experiment with a power bank design with a single usb type-c port. The port should have dual role, source current for charging other devices as well as sink current for charging itself....
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STM32CubeMX USB error “Unknown USB Device(Descriptor Request Failed)”
My STM32 project has an issue about VCP on a CubeMX generated project.
When the USB cable is plugged in, the windows10 can't recognise it and in the device manager panel, it says "Unknown USB Device(...
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USB C PD fast power role swap
I'm currently designing a device, which consists of a STM32 microcontroller with USB 2.0 support, USB 2.0 hub and few dimmable leds.
STM is connected to the hub, along with few other devices. Hub is ...
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What is USB port on oscilloscope is for ? Can I power my Arduino from it? [closed]
I have a DS1102e oscilloscope (by Rigol,) picture attached below.
I'm new to oscilloscopes and watched plenty of tutorials on how to use them, but I couldn't find the answer to my question.
I need ...
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STM32 USB CDC: packet loss with active PC usage
I got a strange error in the USB CDC on the STM32F2. I use HAL implementation of the driver. The size of the buffer transferred in USBD_CDC_SetTxBuffer () is 4096 bytes. On the PC side, I accept the ...
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Low idle power consumption for USB PSU
I'm trying to find out how "good" 5V power adapters can be with respect to power consumption if:
there's no attached power consumer, and/or
the consumer takes very little power, such as an ESP32 in ...
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Charging phone battery with a lower voltage, coming from a bike charger?
Since travel by bike a lot, and use my phone very often during those trips, I tried designing a USB phone bikecharger that would use my bike-dynamo that also powers my lamp.
Yesterday, I did my ...
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How to switch between usb host and slave mode on a micro usb programatically?
Is it possible to program some chip that can switch between USB host and slave mode over an single micro USB cable talking to an Android device?
It would be OK if there was a slight pause between ...
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USB 2.0 current supply [closed]
USB2.0 supports 0.5A for a downstream port. This means that the controller or hub can support a 0.5Amp USB load.I am not referring to the speed now. Suppose I have a load that runs on USB 2.0 speed ...
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Quick charge negotiation device [duplicate]
I'd like some advice on how I can negotiate a Qualcomm Quick Charger up to a certain voltage. I have a "dumb" appliance which usually uses its own transformer/"wall wart" at 12V 1A. I also have a USB ...
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USB 3.1 Gen 1 Transfer Speed Through Hub
If I have a USB Host Controller that supports USB 3.1 Gen 1 plugged into a hub, and 2 storage devices connected to the downstream ports, if I transfer data from one storage device to the other through ...
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Treadmill causes nearby electronics glitch
I don't know if it is right place to ask, if not correct/guide me.
I recently have built treadmill workstation, where I could walk and work (rather than just sitting).
But as soon as I turn on ...
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Embedded design with USB 3.1
I am trying to design a system that will transfer data between two storage devices on a PCB, preferably using USB 3.1 as speed is a major concern in this design. However, my understanding is that I ...
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Repurposing FT232 UART pins as parallel out
Background
I am trying to build a USB Bridge circuit as part of a larger project.
What I mean by that is, I wish to control a parallel out circuit based on information transmitted by the host ...
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Parameter is incorrect error with usb 2.0 but not with usb 3.0 with C# serial program
I've been struggling to understand an error that is happening. I've got a simple program that sends/receives bytes over serial, and up until yesterday I figured was working 100%.
Basically, the issue ...
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Direct connection of UART serial port to USB type-C
in my project I have a USB type-C 3.1 2nd Generation (24 pins), which should provide 5V to a charge battery/battery system. In addition, there is a uC powered at 3,3V where the maximum voltage on GPIO ...
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PL-2303TA TTL UART data corruption
For a lot of projects, I use a fairly common USB to serial dongle called "Prolific USB to Serial" which uses a PL-2303 TA chip to allow USB to 3V TTL serial (i.e. this kind on Alibaba).
I actually ...
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USB fail to pass ESD test even with TVS diode protection
I have read some articles about USB ESD protection and followed the suggestion to add TVS Diode Array USB6B1 in my design. However, my design is still failed to pass the ESD test and I don't know ...
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USB descriptor error on WIndows 10 - An invalid parameter was passed to a service or function
I have a USB 2.0 peripheral device based on an STM32 development board with hand-crafted code in C. This device works when connected to a Windows 7 computer but fails when connected to a Windows 10 ...
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Sharing a USB keyboard between two PCs on a button flip
The PCB for the task would comprise of a USB connector, two sets of 4 PTH for the two USB cables (one set towards PC 1, the other towards PC 2), shared GND and TX and a DPDT switch for separating the ...
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Resuability of TVS Diodes which are injected by some surge
I'm using some TVS diodes for USB protection.
Even if their shields are connected to directly for source GND, I soldered some diodes for electrostatic issues.
I searched this site and Korean wikis, ...
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Interpreting USB-C land pattern
I'm replacing USB Micro and USB B connectors on my PCBs for USB-C connectors, but only using USB 2.0.
So I'm looking for a connector that isn't too complex to layout or hard to solder. I found this ...
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Component identification, between USB-C switch IC and connector
As the title really, can you identify this component?
It's on a line connecting a USB-C switch IC (PI3USB30532) to the USB-C connector and I believe the line is for Display port functionality.
How ...
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Way to power a monitor that requires 12 V 2.5 amps with a PC USB port [closed]
I am looking to see if there is a way to power a monitor like this: (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07774L6TT/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza) over one (or two) of the PC's USB ports, so theoretically it ...
