USB Sensors and Actuators

Yoctopuce designs, manufactures and sells USB devices to let your computer sit in the real world. Our USB modules are tiny, easy to install and easy to drive programmatically. Among them you will find:

Application examples, hints and tutorials

IFTTT and Yoctopuce

YoctoHubs cannot connect directly to the IFTTT cloud service, but you can still use our modules with this platform thanks to the Webhooks. We are going to see how to publish the values measured by a Yocto-Meteo-V2 on different services thanks to IFTTT and Webhooks.

How to measure the state of many buttons

If you have already tried to build a control panel interfaced by USB with many ON/OFF buttons, you know that it's not as simple as it may seem. Not only the multiplication of buttons makes the wiring process quickly complex, but if you are limited to 5 or 8 inputs per module, the number of interface modules that you must use increases rapidly. A way to improve these two issues consists in multiplexing several buttons on a single analog interface, and this is what we are going to show you today.