Driving a USB Rocket Launcher from Perl in User Space
Driving a USB Rocket Launcher from Perl in User Space
By Mike Schilli
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:15 AM
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
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Tags: libusb
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Gadgets like USB rocket launchers often come with Windows-only CDs, but can be controlled on Linux with libusb and Perl.
Learn how to write a Perl script on a Ubuntu Laptop, that turns and tilts a USB cannon, which finally fires styrofoam rockets into the audience. Live demo!
Attended by: Joe Cooper (swelljoe),
Lee Aylward (leedo),
Patrick Michaud (Pm),
Jason Switzer (s1n),
Nicholas Perez (nperez),
Jessica Pavlin,
Dan Dascalescu (dandv),
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (miyagawa),
Arthur Schmidt (fREW),
Olaf Alders (oalders),
Brad Cavanagh (CanSpice),
Mike Greb (mikegrb),
Shana Andreychek,
Eric Andreychek,
Ilia Lobsanov,
Adri Mills,
David Faler,
Douglas Sims,
Mark Jubenville (ioncache),
Darian Patrick (dapatrick),
Barbara Jensen,
Leonard Miller (olegm),
Ryan Kelly (f0rk),
Liam Echlin,
Geoffrey Darling (Geoff),
Dylan Hardison (dylan),
Barbie,
Andrew Walker (Andy),
Christopher Madsen (cjm),
mark stout,
Clinton Wolfe,
Dean Serenevy (duelafn),
Jason Crome (CromeDome),
Walt Mankowski (waltman),
David Walia,
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (ilmari),