The difficulty of writing device drivers is one of the major barriers to the adoption of the USB. A typical embedded-device engineer who can comfortably design embedded systems all day long can get ...

A common challenge for computer security specialists is getting data out of a very locked-down system. Of course all network traffic on these test machines is monitored, and burning a CD or writing to ...

The Spectronic Intellikeys was an innovative keyboard-like accessibility device that used special plastic overlays that change its functionality. While a USB version of the accessible keyboard exists, ...

The Matrix is a USB bill validator, sometimes known as a note reader or bill acceptor, made by Validation Technologies International. The bundled software was developed for Microsoft Windows, but ...

Described here are the construction details of a universal serial bus human interface device (USB HID) external keyboard for devices running on Windows and/or Android operating systems. The keyboard ...

I'm trying to port a .NET program to mono. I want to stick a small, platform-specific wrapper over the device that returns a FileStream. On Windows, I need to use the native CreateFile function to get ...

Gordon Gottsegen is a tech writer who has experience working at publications like Wired. He loves testing out new gadgets and complaining about them. He is the ghost of all failed Kickstarters. Apple, ...