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hallo,
I found usb controlled missile launcher online which looks kind off fun to play with. But it would be a lot more fun if I could control it myself from my own program.
Would it be possible to write my own programs for it (maybe by sending commands to the default program?) without having the source code for it?
If they wrote it, you can write it too. You just have to know how to talk to something hanging off a USB port (looks like a device driver from here, so this is the hard part) and what the device expects to be told (if you don't have any docs about this, then this is also the hard part) and figuring out what the device is trying to tell you (this is also the hard part).
Depending on what their software looks like (I don't know), it might be easily macro-izable.
There is probably a gap between their level of experience and mine. And im fairly sure the gap is not in my favor :PQuote:
If they wrote it, you can write it too.
I dont know how to do any of this and im not sure this would be a good/easy exorcise for me to learn it.Quote:
You just have to know how to talk to something hanging off a USB port (looks like a device driver from here, so this is the hard part) and what the device expects to be told (if you don't have any docs about this, then this is also the hard part) and figuring out what the device is trying to tell you (this is also the hard part).
What does that mean?Quote:
Depending on what their software looks like (I don't know), it might be easily macro-izable.
Regards,
http://www.lvr.com/usb.htm
Scroll down to "Protocol Analyzers"
They're for USB like ethereal is for networking.
Once you know the protocol, you can set about making your own.