Do I get a share of the royalties :P Actually, I did go as far as talking to the people most likely to supply the USB host controller for this sort of application (Cypress). In the course of the discussion I/we came to the conclusion that it would be much easier to support a flash card (like SD for...

It's actually very cheap to do, involving only 3 IC's if you design it right. One of which handles the compliance (USB end at least) for you. I do however agree it's probably not worth designing yet another one unless there is a particular need. The 'expensive compliance issue' I was thinking of wa...

This is Dosx's teritory, he has already written something very very similar. He's just waiting on me designing and building a a cheap USB -> DMX interface. (Not that he's asked me yet :P) I can't believe the world needs another USB->DMX interface does it? Aren't there loads of the things already? (...

I take your point, but I was just trying to suggest that reading/writing flash memory (of some sort) via the floppy drive might be viable with a little bit of work :-) Yes, now you say it, a drop-in 'floppy drive ' replacement which had a USB thumb-drive socket it on it sounds like a relatively sim...

I used to have a pretend floppy that accepted a smartmedia card ... Alas, Smartmedia has become obsolete much faster than 3.5" disks - even if the gadget did work in a desk (which I doubt), you would merely substitute the difficulty of getting floppies for the difficulty of getting Smartmedia....

I would thought it's possible to use either the mechanism used by the Avo Visualiser, or ACDI to interface to a 3rd party USB-DMX dongle. That would rather depend on your software skills. (I don't own any USB-DMX dongle, so I can't experiment.) I've no idea if this would be a breach of the simulator...