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GPIO for PCs

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I work on arduino and raspberry pi and many times i thought what if i could get the processing power of my laptop cpu for running the program. That's when I thought of creating a gpio board for laptops. I like to know your views on this topic, If  I get on to develop a usb  GPio pins for your laptops will you buy it?

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    I like Adafruit's US$15 FT232H Breakout Board., which has GPIO, UART, SPI, I2C, and JTAG.  I use one as a JTAG controller from GNU/Linux using libftdi.  In the UK it may be cheaper to get boards directly from FTDI.

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    Thx to JB for the Info. Q: FTDI =?. Yet libftdi = a? Gnu/Linux Library? (software). To date: I have only used GPIO on RaspPi. BUT have various variants on the Arduino. I even bought an Pololu USB AVR Programmer (w/ mini-USB at one end, and 6-conductor female header at other end), EVEN Though I may not use it. I was just covering my Bases. (US Baseball term) The Link to Adafruit gives me another avenue of exploration of these confusing terms "FTDI " , "I2C", "AVR", etc. This stuff is so confusing that doing a WIKI did not help. Anybody knows of a summary/Compilation/explanation of these SBC (Single Board Computers) programming options? . Actually Arduino is a Microcontroller, but let's not go there.  Additional Thx to JB for mentioning (implicitly) that he was in the UK. AGAIN I ask Comment(ers) to leave mention of their Physical Location (Just the Country, you reside in ). Like I said many times "Context is Everything".

    USCDADNYC (NY NY USA)

  • 0 in reply to uscdadnyc

    Wrong. John Beetem is in California, Berkeley area, IIRC.

     

    Mike

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