[NTLK] For the hardware hackers out ther: USBWiz

From: newton_at_allaboutjake.com
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 08:53:14 PDT

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Hi there. For the Newton hardware hackers out there, I thought this might
be interesting. Its a USB-host chip that allows keyboard, mouse,
joystick, and USB mass storage devices to be connected. Its geared at
small microcontroller devices, but I immediately thought "Newton":

http://www.ghielectronics.com/USBwiz.htm

I see it mainly as an easy way to interface a USB keyboard to the Newt. It
could be done with a dongle or an internal card. The mass storage thing
would be cool, but it would not only an elaborate software driver, but
would be slow (2Mbits/sec max) if you used Serial 0 and externally clocked
it.

More of a "thats cool" kind of thing. I've long hoped someone would come
out with a "easy to use" USB host controller.

Jake

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