Exploring Webusb and its Exciting Potential

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A browser can talk to and even program USB microcontrollers using WebUSB with a permission-based model and a device-descriptor URL that prompts a page when hardware is plugged in. Demoed: a Feather 32u4 receives images drawn in the browser via Johnny-Five and png.lcd, and a bare AVR chip gets flashed page‑by‑page through an AVR ISP mkII programmer (writes show per‑page hashes). Implementation uses WebUSB serial hacks, Webpack, and currently runs only in Chrome (Chrome Android supported).

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