Hacker News with Generative AI: USB

Teardown, Optimization: Comsol 8Gb USB Flash Stick (2015) (goughlui.com)
A while back, I received a Comsol 8Gb USB Flash Stick for a test. As it turns out, I’ve managed to grab another, so I felt less bad about breaking one apart to work out what’s inside – and as it turns out, it provided me a world of entertainment for the weekend. It was more than I expected, and the optimization process is something engineers (like myself) really get excited about.

Hardware, Electronics, Optimization, Teardown, USB

27 points by userbinator 13 days ago | 4 comments

10-cent RISC-V MCU features 2.4GHz wireless, Bluetooth LE 5.0, USB 2.0 (cnx-software.com)
Patrick Yang, CTO at WCH, has recently unveiled the CH570 RISC-V SoC with 2.4GHz wireless and USB 2.0 (host & device) as an upgrade to the popular CH32V003 general-purpose RISC-V MCU with more features at the same low price (10 cents).

RISC-V, Microcontrollers, Wireless, Bluetooth, USB

8 points by fork-bomber 18 days ago | 1 comments

I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox (github.com/ArcaneNibble)
It turns out that there is a way for a web page to access USB devices without requiring WebUSB and its associated political disagreements!

Web Development, Firefox, USB, Security, Hacking

314 points by todsacerdoti 20 days ago | 288 comments

ACCESS.bus: The Forgotten USB Competitor (tedium.co)
Today in Tedium: If you know your tech peripheral history, odds are, you know about the Universal Serial Bus like the back of your hand—in part because every device you own supports it. But you probably know a lot about numerous other ports. Thunderbolt? Obviously. FireWire? Sure, you owned a camera back in the day. Apple Desktop Bus? You got it.

USB, Technology, History

71 points by PaulHoule 31 days ago | 14 comments

Accessing the Qualcomm Modem over USB on the RAK5010 (danielmangum.com)
I have recently been working with the RAKwireless RAK5010 development board.

Hardware, Development Boards, USB, Qualcomm

43 points by hasheddan 40 days ago | 0 comments

A story about USB floppy drives (2004) (microsoft.com)
A friend of mine used to work on the development of the USB specification and subsequent implementation. One of the things that happens at these meetings is that hardware companies would show off the great USB hardware they were working on. It also gave them a chance to try out their hardware with various USB host manufacturers and operating systems to make sure everything worked properly together.

USB, Hardware, History, Technology

74 points by airhangerf15 51 days ago | 46 comments

Accessing the Qualcomm Modem over USB on the RAK5010 (danielmangum.com)
I have recently been working with the RAKwireless RAK5010 development board.

Hardware, RAKwireless, Qualcomm, USB

7 points by hasheddan 62 days ago | 0 comments

Discotool: USB Arduino type boards discovery library and tool (github.com/Neradoc)
Module and tool to discover all boards connected to USB.

Arduino, USB, Hardware, Software, Libraries

29 points by nateb2022 88 days ago | 6 comments

USB On-The-Go (computer.rip)
USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral.

USB, Technology, Hardware

208 points by jnord 90 days ago | 102 comments

Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster? (eclecticlight.co)
They might all connect to the same ports, but Thunderbolt 3, 4, 5, USB 3 and USB4 are disturbingly different, and few deliver the performance that their up-tos promise. From the figures that I see here at the moment, the most reliably performant in widely available products is USB4, but that’s not supported by Thunderbolt 3 on Intel Macs.

Storage, Hardware, Performance, Thunderbolt, USB

105 points by zdw 100 days ago | 123 comments

Implement a USB->SCSI Bridge Mode for BlueSCSI (github.com/BlueSCSI)
This feature request is to add a new "mode" to BlueSCSI that allows it to connect legacy SCSI devices to a modern-ish host via USB.

Hardware, SCSI, USB, BlueSCSI

6 points by wmlive 133 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB (github.com/bahaaador)
This project creates a Bluetooth USB HID relay using a Raspberry Pi Zero (or similar OTG-enabled single-board computer). It allows you to use Bluetooth keyboards and mice with computers that have Bluetooth disabled, by presenting the board as a composite USB HID device.

Hardware, Bluetooth, USB, Raspberry Pi

233 points by bahaaador 141 days ago | 113 comments

USB Insight Hub (crowdsupply.com)
USB Insight Hub plugs into your computer through a USB Type-C connector and exposes three USB 3.0 downstream ports, each with a 1.3-inch screen that displays relevant information about the attached device.

Hardware, USB, Gadgets

17 points by ofrzeta 150 days ago | 3 comments

Modern USB gadget on Linux and how to integrate it with systemd (Part 1) (2019) (collabora.com)
tl;dr: Automate your gadget creation. A look at how to implement USB gadget devices on Linux machines which have the necessary UDC hardware, automate the manual configfs process via declarative gadget "schemes", and use systemd for gadget composition at boot time.

Linux, USB, Systemd, Automation, Hardware

12 points by GalaxySnail 177 days ago | 2 comments

Apple is still limiting the iPhone 16 to slow 24-year-old USB 2.0 speeds (pcgamer.com)

Apple, iPhone, Technology, Hardware, USB

48 points by miles 178 days ago | 44 comments

M4 Mac Mini Likely to Lose Support for USB-A (9to5mac.com)

Mac, Hardware, Apple, USB, Technology

8 points by m463 211 days ago | 1 comments

HIDman Adapting USB devices to work on old computers (github.com/rasteri)

Hardware, Software, Retro Computing, USB

133 points by CTOSian 212 days ago | 32 comments

USB Sniffer Lite for RP2040 (github.com/ataradov)