There are few things in this life, with which I’m unapologetically enamored. I’ll say with vigor that I like, love, love Universal Serial Bus, or USB, technology. Parallel, serial, GPIB, and communications ports express great sorrow at that last sentence. USB ports, connectors, and cables are so engrained in our tradition that each system comes with some sort of USB functionality.
You never see floppy disc drives and even serial ports are a rarity on most new computer systems but these USB ports keep multiplying like rabbits. Computers include a number of USB ports since all the peripherals now run off of USB connections. USB hubs could be purchased with seven ports (and there are some on the market with even more.) Phone chargers are now two-in-one with USB capabilities.
The list of potentialities with USB cables is near endless. USB just won’t do. Recently I was entangled with a dilemma in which I needed to transfer data from, basically, one onerous drive to another. A chunk of gear within the laboratory would make a measurement and file the ends in a file inner to its personal arduous drive.
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I had created an Excel program, slopped collectively by way of Visual Basic coding paying homage to a Frankenstein creation, and wanted to extract the information from the measurement gadget and put it to use with my program. Previous to that point, I used a USB flash drive because, as stated, I love all things USB.
I would load the info onto the stick, bodily transport it to the computer, and then add it into my, for lack of a more acceptable term, ‘program.’ This grew to become tiresome. So what was a handsome, witty, brave, and modest gentleman similar to myself to do? The preliminary reaction was to easily link the 2 by an Ethernet connection however the issue with that proposal was that the piece of gear was slightly costly and we did not need any particular random person speaking with it. Plus the purple tape and litigation that might ensue from inserting an unknown object on the community would probably give me a headache and get your entire operation shut down.
We have been additionally limited as a consequence of my lack of knowledge with reference to coding related to serial and GPIB ports. Essentially I solely knew how to find, save, copy, and delete information – transporting discrete information was an unknown to me (and nonetheless is.) With IT and my very own brain working in opposition to me, I turned to my outdated good friend, USB.
USB structure consists of a number and a gadget. Typically, your computer is a host whereas your webcam / iPod / printer / scanner / mouse / keyboard / and so forth. Is the gadget. With a USB, data is dumped from one to the opposite with the host essentially calling the shots and telling the machine what to do.
What about, say, your telephone? It might connect with a computer as a gadget, but, with the appropriate connectors, it also can act as a number to other gadgets. This is turning into increasingly frequent as merchandise has become more versatile and interchangeable. Luckily, Engineers and Programmers are always in step with calls for (or at least trailing carefully) and created USB-On-The-Go (USB OTG) which basically permits USB connections for that very concern.