AVR-Chat

You can connect this board to your AVR and read any USB memory 
device and even a mouse or keyboard
http://www.ghielectronics.com/USBwiz-OEM.htm

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "stevech" <stevech@s...> wrote:
>
> The AVR would have to be a USB host - and that protocol stack is 
very
> complex/large
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] 
On Behalf
> Of Thomas Keller
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 11:39 AM
> To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [AVR-Chat] Interesting device
> 
>   On Saturday, I attended a Meet&Greet function for our local 
FreeCycle
> organization (check out www.freecycle.org for mor einformation on a
> wonderful movement).  There, I obtained an odd thing:  A USB based
> "Smart Card Reader" (branded for Target Stores).  Included is a CD 
with
> the drivers and so on for WinBlows.
> 
>    In any case, it occured to me when I saw it that this might 
prove a
> useful toy to have.  Wondering if anyone here has interfaced such a
> thing to an AVR?  I know Atmel makes SmartCard chips.  It may 
become the
> basis for some sort of an interesting project, eh?
> 
>    Well, for free it seemed like a bargain too good to pass up 
(much to
> my poor suffering wife's chagrin).
> 
> Tom
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