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Subject: Re: Python USB control on Windows 7?
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:48:38 -0500
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:14:08 -0700, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On 12/23/2012 11:11 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
> > So far as I can tell Windows doesn't let you turn the ports on and off. I 
> > found some suggestion that by connecting it to a powered hub it may be 
> > possible to toggle the hub power on and off but that many hubs don't bother 
> > implementing the functionality.
> > 
> > Thanks anyway.
> 
> Or you might have more fun if you cut off the USB plug, and drive the
> thing directly using an Arduino board.  You can use the USB serial port
> on it to prgrammatically turn the thing on and off from your computer,
> or a billion other possible things.

	Hook up a USB > X-10 controller, plug an X-10 switchable outlet
module somewhere, plug-in a USB charger unit, and plug the lights into
the USB charger... Then use the computer to command the outlet module
on/off...
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