So you want to build USB enabled devices. Bumble-B is here to help! It is a breakout board for Atmel's at90usb162 microcontroller, along with supporting hardware and USB connector. It is DIP-24/600mil shape, and works very well on a breadboard. You can program Bumble-B without any special hardware and using entirely free and open source software from Atmel and the AVR community. This makes Bumble-B a self-contained AVR development kit that you can start working with instantly, with no special tools.  Bumble-B: breadboard mojo
You can use the default Bumble-B firmware, a program called userial to communicate over i2c, SPI, or do general purpose IO bit-banging without writing code. When you use Bumble-B to build HID devices such as keyboards, joysticks, mice, or build CDC virtual serial devices, Bumble-B works without drivers on all modern computer platforms. The development environment is also supported in all modern operating systems including Linux, Windows, and Macintosh. You can read a bit about the history of Bumble-B and the preloaded firmware in the Fletchtronics blog. Read more about how people are using Bumble-B here. Bumble-B Related Links:
Out of stock.Bumble-B version 2 is on the way and will be here within a couple weeks (will update this with a date when possible). Version 2 uses ATMega32u2 and is pin and firmware compatible with Bumble-B version 1. The main difference is the updated microcontroller and possibly a switch for changing power modes instead of the three pin header.   Customer Quotesbtw, i did manage to plug it in. and it does work. damn fine craftsmanship too dfletcher! <laen_> Also, my bumble-b has gone through the wash three times. |
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