08/08/2021
HIDmaker Projects You Can Try YOURSELF
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Today we're going to OBLITERATE HID Myth #6 -- one of the 18 harmful Myths about USB HID that waay too many people still believe. (See the full list of myths in the post above this one.)
This is important because because a lot of people believe that USB HID devices can only communicate 64-bytes at a time, at most. AIN'T SO !
This is shame, because these myths prevent people from even trying to do things things with HID that they are fully entitled to do, like being able to communicate a lot of data really fast, even on an 8-bit microcontroller. All because of a sad misunderstanding on someone's part years ago.
This is really important because if you can send a lot of data really fast over USB HID, you'll be able to design devices that work faster than your competition, and you'll get rewarded for being able to do that.
The GOOD news is that ALL those 18 myths are completely wrong, and we can prove it, with demonstrations that YOU can run yourself, with your own PIC device and PC. That's because of 2 big things we learned along the way:
Thing Number 1 is : "The very things that make USB easy for users to USE, are the SAME things that make USB projects hard for designers to DESIGN."
Thing Number 2 is : "Since USB software is meant to communicate with a computer, then the best way to make USB software is to generate that source code IN a computer." That's the best way to get all the many details right, on both the computer and the peripheral side, consistent on both sides at the same time.
So to puncture Myth #6, that "HID Reports are limited to only 1 packet, containing 64 bytes max," our new Demo Portal offers our OScope demo, which display a variety of waveforms sent from the PIC device, with fake noise to show that these waveforms are updated very rapidly in real time, even from an 8-bit PIC. You can see an animated GIF of this at the bottom of this post.
Oh, by the way, our "OScope" demo ALSO crushes Myths #1, #2, #3, #4, #7, #13, #14, #15, #17, #18.
Our Demo Portal also has some "PDFS-Compatible" projects that obliterate Myths #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #10, #11, #13, #14, #15, #16, and #17 as well.
So, why not check out our Demo Portal? It's totally free.
To get access, go to https://tracesystemsinc.convertri.com/request-demos and register with your name and email address. You will then receive an email from customerhub.com that will give you a link to our Demo Portal. Use the link in the email, and enter a password of your own choosing.
You will see a "Library" page containing some panels. Scroll down a bit until you find a panel labeled "HIDmaker Demo Portal." Click the "Lets Do This" link in the lower right corner of that panel to access the demos. Watch the video in the Overview section, and then look for downloadable demos any of the other sections, for 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit PIC devices.
