For the most part, change happens slowly in the world of PCs and that's especially true of the humble USB port. Most motherboard manufacturers only throw in a handful of Type-C connectors on the ...

The monitor, printer, network, keyboard and mouse are permanently plugged into the port replicator, which connects to the laptop via the USB port. A port replicator provides some or all of the ...

We plugged each USB adapter into the USB 3.2 Gen 1 (aka USB 3.0) port of a Dell Latitude laptop running Windows 11. We installed the latest driver from each manufacturer’s website. We connected ...

Well then, check out [bluepylons]’s USB-C splitter, which takes a single USB-C 5V/3A port and splits it into three 5V/1A plugs, wonderful for charging a good few devices on the go! This adapter ...

For simple USB-C usecases, like “get USB 2.0 and 5 V out of a port, follow a simple recipe – attach a 5.1 kΩ pulldown to each CC pin, and you will have a USB-C port that will work with all ...

For example, a printer that also scans and faxes but uses only one USB port to connect to the computer. These devices allow multiple functions to operate through a single connection, conserving ...

but the monitor’s USB-C port can also serve as a video-input alternative to HDMI or DisplayPort; and some USB-C monitors can even charge a connected device while in use. The details of USB-C can ...

(1) An external storage or optical disc drive that plugs into the USB port. See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage module that plugs into the computer's USB port. Emerging just ...

A combo port that connects to external SATA (eSATA) drives and USB devices with cables up to two meters long. The eSATA USB Hybrid Port (EUHP) also eliminates the external power cable by supplying ...

The next step in that process of improvement may be here now as well, with this project which turns the ESP32 into a USB host. USB is not a native feature on all microcontrollers or even Arduino ...

Micro USB was once the connector of choice for applications where USB-A was too big, but now USB-C has come to dominate all. It’s becoming standard across the board for many peripherals, and ...

USB Type-C has widely become the de facto primary means of wired connection for most of our electronic devices. It forms the ...