mbed USB Slingshot!


Fusing electronics, software and carpentry with the new mbed NXP LPC11U24 Microcontroller prototyping board, we give you...

See all the write-up and build details here:

And if you are at Embedded World, come and have a go yourself :)

Hope it inspires some USB devices of your own!

5 comments on mbed USB Slingshot!:

27 Feb 2012

So this answers the question "Can you guess what it is yet?" It's a USB slingshot!!! If I saw breadboard with accelerometer, USB device connector and two "things" routing from Vout to Analog In I had Idea about converting 3D X, Y movement to mouse movement with Z rotation to scroll like mouse wheel. But I wasn't able to deduct what are those two "things".

But hey, with accelerometer and usb device connector it must be some kind of USB device. No MSD or CDC, it must be HID I thoutght. Last idea was that those "things" on wire must be switches with resistor field to sense which button is pressed by outgoing voltage because I thought that You tried to hide them. So I ended with 3D mouse idea.

I wasn't so far but You absolutely suprissed me. I love fresh and new ideas like this slingshot!!!!

BTW, do You mbed team plan to bring USB host library with support of classes like for USB device? I already read something about notwork stack. I think of it because of new CMSIS RTOS + USB host or Device + Network stack + SD File System looks like very powerfull combo but if all those are "originall" mbed libraries from mbed team, it sounds twice better.

27 Feb 2012

Very nice video, especially at the end! lol :) Still laugh! :)

28 Feb 2012

lol,

At my office 5 people nearly slid of their chair lol'ing.

Briljant idea !

29 Feb 2012

Wow ... made it into the local Geneva, Switzerland paper :-)

http://www.lematin.ch/high-tech/jeux/connecte-vrai-lancepierre-angry-birds/story/30360717

Serge

29 Feb 2012

Also on Hack a Day Blog!!!

Mbed USB Slingshot on Hack a Day blog!!! http://hackaday.com/2012/02/28/usb-slingshot-controller-is-for-the-birds/

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