GPIO from my PC?

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Hiya :slight_smile:

When I want to interface between a component and a computer I use my raspberry PI 400 and it’s GPIO. It’s good stuff.

Sometimes I wish I could just GPIO out of my PC.
Last time I needed to do that I grabbed an Arduino nano, wrote some code that took binary instructions via USB serial which punched out GPIO instructions. Fun and effective but took ages because I was inventing a protocol.

Has someone made a GPIO tool that USB-Cs into a computer?

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Hi @Pixmusix,

From what I’ve seen using Microcontrollers or Raspberry Pi’s as GPIO interfaces is one way to do this.
Probably more what you are after is a device like Adafruits FT232H Breakout.

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Ah yeah cool. :+1:
Your product page had this link to the chip which is exactly what I want. Thanks :slight_smile:

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