USB Sensors and Actuators

Yoctopuce designs, manufactures and sells USB devices to let your computer sit in the real world. Our USB modules are tiny, easy to install and easy to drive programmatically. Among them you will find:

Application examples, hints and tutorials

A control WebApp with VirtualHub for Web

Yoctopuce products enable you - among other things - to remotely control a device via the Internet. What's special about the Yoctopuce solution is that it's not based on a proprietary infrastructure, which could shut down any day and render all these systems inoperable, as has already happened far too often. Yoctopuce offers remote control tools which you are free to install on the host of your choice, and which you can move to another host in a few years' time if need be...

Running on an antique (Windows XP)

For most people, Windows XP is dead and buried. However, as we already mentionned, there are still machines running XP, and as we make it a point of honour to support older operating systems for as long as reasonably possible, we decided to check whether our C++ library could still be recompiled to run on an OS that has not been supported for over 10 years. As we shall see, it is possible, but there are several pitfalls to avoid...