Meet the Hostess FeatherWing – a USB host card in the Feather Form Factor being designed by @theavalkyrie.
I’m starting by building a featherwing that’ll have a SAMD21 and a USB A port. It’ll work with USB MIDI and HID devices for now, but it’ll be open source and stuff.
The board has been programmed to do various functions including handling USB keyboards, hosting a basic PS4 controller, and reading and writing USB MIDI data:
Started a basic PS4 controller driver Hostess FeatherWing 🎉 pic.twitter.com/X0oKIJ9G6T
— Stargirl 🌠 (@theavalkyrie) June 4, 2020
Up until now, the Hostess Featherwing could only read from USB MIDI devices, but now it can write! This is a Feather M4 sending some notes to a hardware MIDI synthesizer through the Hostess. No computer needed. 😊 pic.twitter.com/nozDsF9H3e
— Stargirl 🌠 (@theavalkyrie) May 29, 2020
See Stargirl’s Twitter stream for updates on this work.
See other Feather form factor boards and information on the Awesome Feather list.