Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling external devices

Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by keithnz on Sunday April 02, 2017 @11:23PM (#14020397)

I don't get it, why is this even high up on HN? There's a ton of similar products, many which do a lot more than this that can be controlled using .net

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by nitrogen on Sunday April 02, 2017 @11:25PM (#14020405)

Link to some of them maybe?

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Edit: some I have used or heard of that may or may not have .net support:

USB Bit Whacker - http://www.schmalzhaus.com/UBW/

Ultimarc control interfaces (haven't tried them) - http://www.ultimarc.com/

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by tyingq on Monday April 03, 2017 @09:39AM (#14022644)

An FTDI FT232H is popular in this space as well. You can get one already on a breakout board for $15. https://www.digikey.com/products/en?mpart=2264&v=1528

Tutorials, etc, here: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-ft232h-breakout Includes some python code that works on Windows, Linux, etc.

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by fredericaltorre on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:38AM (#14023582)

Adafruit does not support .NET on Windows.

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by tyingq on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:52AM (#14023757)

Adafruit just put the chip on a breakout board. There's .net support for it.

A couple of sources:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/SoftwareExamples/MPSSE/FTCSP...

https://github.com/zhelnio/MPSSELight

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by madeintheusb on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:59PM (#14045066)

You are right there is .NET support, I used it the SPI library. I think there one library for I2C and one for SPI. I settled on the FTDI ft4222 which is somehow easier to program and can only do SPI and I2C (no IO, no UART). The FT232H could be faster in SPI.

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by bbarn on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:48AM (#14022346)

http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=0

Used these for some simple automation needs in the past. Simple .net library available on the site. Not nearly as cheap as the one in the post (which I did have to google 3 different sites to find the price of)

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by shawnz on Monday April 03, 2017 @12:08AM (#14020541)

You could use a raspberry pi with Windows 10 IoT core.

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by JoachimSchipper on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:28AM (#14020963)

This was downvoted quite a bit when I came across it, but can someone explain why it's so bad?

Sometimes you do want to add GPIO to an existing Windows machine, but if you just want to mess around with .Net and some simple electronics, the parent's suggestion is cheap and simple (and e.g. https://github.com/raspberry-sharp/raspberry-sharp-io claims to support this use case.)

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by Nexxxeh on Saturday April 08, 2017 @09:00AM (#14066686)

Only the Pi 3 (and CM3, CM3L presumably) are supported iirc.

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by keithnz on Sunday April 02, 2017 @11:26PM (#14020417)

heh, just did :)

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by keithnz on Sunday April 02, 2017 @11:26PM (#14020411)

I make a lot of use of these for production control and testing systems from .net - http://www.mccdaq.com/

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Re:Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling... by madeintheusb on Monday April 03, 2017 @10:01AM (#14022782)

I did find some device that can do DAC/ADC or IO for $99. I did not find one that can also do SPI and I2C. one the web site, could give a link to a device like Nusbio from the web site http://www.mccdaq.com/

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