USB Specification (Don't hit me!)

[buddy.smith]

Originally Posted by Total Meltdown

I just had a really freaky idea.

Suppose, using a few of the digital IO ports on the robot controller, one was able to implement the USB specification, which is outlined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Technical_details and written in detail at http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/

Well, USB has a "device" and a "host". Making a "device" is easy, but still non-trivial without hardware support. To plug in a mouse though, you'd need a host. This is NOT trivial, and is in fact quite hard.

The USB chicklet is a host. So no, you can't bit bang a USB port from the RC. Nice try though

It'd be better to take those mice apart and use the pieces.

ttyl,

--buddy