The_Programmer

Hello Everybody i want to create a program to let me have the ability to control a USB device such as ( A motor or a LED etc.. . )
If anyone can help i appreciate very much.

dilettante

If someone creates a "USB motor/LED" product they must make it appear to Windows as some standard device type or provide drivers and an API if it is to be a custom device.

Think of USB the way you think of PCI, AGP, ISA, ATA, etc. slots. You don't control the slots, you control the devices plugged in. In other words there is no such thing as generic use of the USB Host Adapter. It is nothing like COMn: ports in its nature or intended use. It is an expansion port.

The_Programmer

Thanks For your Reply, But as i understood we cant do this through a USB Port.
Ok If I want to do so through a COM port is that possible? And how?
The way i want to control this device is through a visual basic 6.0 program, but how to create this program.
If anyone can help Please.

darkforcesjedi

VB doesn't natively support Parallel or COM communications, but if you get yourself WIN95IO.DLL, it has the functions vbIn and vbOut which enable this. (InpOut32.dll works as well)

How you operate an attached device depends entirely on how it's designed. You can create a circuit directly connecting an LED and a resister between one of the +5V data pins and the ground. Switching the data pin on and off would turn the LED on and off.

mkaras

There are many many "devices" that connect to a computer via the USB interconnection system. You (i.e. TheProgrammer) have not focused in on the specific device so it would appear that you are trying to comprehend how you may control a 'generic' device through a USB connection. In the general case it is necessary to design up the hardware and write the software for both ends to get a USB device operational or get a ready made device where someone else has already done the work for you. Now all that said there are a fair number of USB devices out in the market that provide some of the PC to target interface by providing the USB connection for you and then you can provide the adaption on the target end of the thing to get the device attached to your specific end hardware/device. Here are some examples of some of these interface connectivity solutions....

http://www.dlpdesign.com/usb/usb232.shtml

http://sewelldirect.com/usbtoparallel.asp

http://www.pc-control.co.uk/minibee_info.htm

http://www.totalphase.com/products/aardvark_i2cspi/

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/led-...put-controller

http://www.xjtag.com/jtag-tools/xjlink-jtag-usb.php

http://www.measurementcomputing.com/...N78NVNRB7WBPC7

http://www.sealevel.com/product_deta...rface_Adapter_

http://www.pc-control.co.uk/motorbee_info.htm

http://www.gadgetshop.com/Gadgets/Te...e+Launcher.jsp

http://www.mensup.fr/usbwine/?act=in...WINE&o=92&p=61