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Originally Posted by youngWilliam14
i'm sure that there is/our programmers can cook something up that will make the palm read off data from the O/I
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I don't want to step on your dreams, but let me try to reiterate what Alan was trying to say. Apparently (I'll trust the engineer on this one) the device you're using is a USB client, not a USB host. You can read up on how USB works on
Wikipedia, but I'll try to explain anyway. Computers are USB hosts... they can accept USB devices, and communicate with them. USB clients (like printers and Flash drives) can also communicate, but they require the presence of a USB host to do so. It's not uncommon for a computing device to not act as a host... the Gumstix mini computer does the same. So, before you spend a lot of money and time on this project, you might want to do some research to see if your device can host USB peripherals (such as a USB to serial adapter), because Alan seems to think that it won't. If that's the case, it is a limitation of the hardware that programmers won't be able to overcome.