Re: [OCLUG-Tech] USB control of digital camera shutter or focus

2013-07-11 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:46:38PM -0400, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: > There are numerous, rather random posts about controlling digital > cameras via USB. Most success seems to be with high-end digital SLR > types. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience locally. I've a > ton of old docs to ca

[OCLUG-Tech] USB control of digital camera shutter or focus

2013-07-11 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
There are numerous, rather random posts about controlling digital cameras via USB. Most success seems to be with high-end digital SLR types. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience locally. I've a ton of old docs to capture, and have built a copy stand which sort of works with a cheap Webcam

[OCLUG-Tech] looking for simple USB device to demonstrate USB driver

2013-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for the purpose of showing what a USB driver looks like, i'd like to get some really simple USB device -- from the drivers/usb/misc kernel source directory, i can see sample drivers for LED, LCD, seven-segment display, that sort of thing. that would be perfect -- something like this: http://