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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Controlling USB devices

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is used extensively by computers to provide additional peripherals and expansion through a common standard connection. We will use the pyusb Python library to send custom commands to connected devices over USB.

The following example controls a USB toy missile launcher, which in turn allows it to be controlled by our Python control panel. We can see that the same principle can be applied to other USB devices, such as a robotic arm, using similar techniques, and the controls can be activated using a sensor connected to the Raspberry Pi GPIO:

The USB Tenx Technology SAM missile launcher
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