Open Source C Hardware Platforms

libVISCA is a library for controlling a VISCA compliant video camera. VISCA is a professional camera control protocol, designed by Sony to be used on several of its surveillance and OEM block cameras.

A portable library to access braille displays.

This is a non-official driver, written in C, for the FPS200 Veridicom's fingerprint sensor with the USB interface. It is also compatible with the Fujitsu's MBF200 fingerprint capture device.

This is a library to provide high-level control over force-feedback devices under Linux.

ChNIMotion allows user programs to use the FlexMotion C library and run on the fly without compilation. It's an ideal solution for teaching and learning motion control, rapid prototyping, interactive motion control, and Web-based remote motion control.

PUB! is a Programmable USB Button on which you can program with a sequence of keystrokes. When you press the button those keystrokes are "replayed" over a USB connection. The button is programmed using an innovative and slightly quirky interface that does not require any custom software to be installed on your computer. All you need is a text editor like Notepad or gedit.

Driver and tools for Pegasus Mobile Notetaker

Device Driver for the ACS USB servo controller (USBB-01 interface card). HID class USB device to contoll eight RC type servos, eight optically isolated current inputs and 8 current sink outputs.

This project offers an uniformized way to interface a extented variety of analog-to-digital conv. chips to a computer that uses Windows. It is written in C as a set of plugin DLLs plus a central interface. The interface is intented to be VB compatible

This Ethernet sniffer was designed to work together with the medical device for EEG acquisition BrainNet36® (BNT36), from EMSA Equipamentos Médicos Ltda. BrainNet36® has 36 channels, A/D converters with 16 bit accuracy, conversion time of 10 µs and Ethernet communication interface. Being a device for clinical purposes, BrainNet36® does not export data online. This sniffer was developed to allow online processing by working in promiscuous mode and recording data in a plain text file.

Firmware for Cypress' EZ-USB (AN2131) device that lets you use keyboards, mice etc. as USB compliant Human Interface Devices.

This is an open-hardware Infrared Remote Controlled USB keyboard, without keys, implemented using a PIC micro-controller and MikroC. IRK! enables you to use your LEARNING remote control to control any system that you can plug a USB keyboard into (Windows, Linux, Mac). Great for controlling a home theatre system such as MythTV, XBMC or Media Center. No drivers are required. You can program *any* USB keyboard function (with or without Control, Alt, Shift and GUI modifiers) to a button on your infrared remote control and when you press that button IRK! will send the corresponding USB keystroke to the host computer. You can program *any* USB Consumer Device control code too...for example, Play, Pause, Mute, Volume up, Volume down, and many others.

Generic firmware for homebrew computer keyboard controllers.

Provides access to Belkin Nostromo n50/n52 speedpads as more than simple USB keyboard devices via configuration GUI. Also includes a basic userland linux event interface and both OpenGL and OpenAL modules for video and audio.

Development of Linux kernel drivers and userspace libraries to take advantage of the tactile feedback capabilities of the Logitech iFeel mouse.

Open source, cross platform drivers and function library for the NovInt Falcon Haptic Controller. These drivers are not produced by Novint Technologies, Inc. and do not come with any warranty as to their correctness or usage.

Working with microprocessors is one of the most creative, challenging and rewarding areas of electronic and software engineering. Open-USB-IO makes learning this process fun and easy.

Open MT Project

The goal of the See&Touch project is to design/implement a special mouse for disabled people, which allows a person to fully control a computer by using just vision and one single body movement. This project develops hardware, firmware and software.

SmashSuit is an application for PalmOS to control a wearable display embedded in a suit jacket. The project also includes a hardware description and code for the microcontrollers used, including code for interfacing a Siemens mobile phone.

We are developing a suite of software to control USB I/O devices. Initially the support will be for Windows and Linux hosted Human Interface Devices (HID) although hopefully this will extend to virtual comms. port control in the future. API coming...

Various EEG Apps include several EEG based tools (brainwave analysis tools, brainwave controlled games) with associated hardware description given as example. The principal goal is to provide a brainwave activated controller headset coupled to a PC.

Linux library for interfacing with the Logitech G13 keypad containing methods to set the keypad backcolor, load images, and control key mappings. There are two sub-libraries providing Gtk and Gtkmm widgets that can be embedded into applications.

control unipolar stepper motors connected to a parallelport.

weegie is a driver that allows a gamepad with dual joysticks to be used in place of keyboard and mouse for input under X11.