Yoctopuce, USB Sensors and Actuators

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:

Yocto-Light-V5-C

Yocto-Light-V5-CHigh sensitivity, large range, ambient light sensor (luxmeter), for measuring light intensity from 0 to 143'000 lux, with built-in data logger.

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Yocto-MaxiKnob

Yocto-MaxiKnobThe Yocto-MaxiKnob can read analog buttons, switches, potentiometers and quadrature encoders. It can also drive smart RGB LEDs and emit sound and tunes using a built-in buzzer.

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Application examples, hints and tutorials

A small and very unobtrusive display

For an in-house project, we needed a small display that we could read from a few meters away, even in the dark, but that would remain unobtrusive when not in use. We were therefore very tempted by these displays that remain invisible when turned off, which is why we decided to use a 15x7 CharliePlex LED Matrix Display FeatherWing from Adafruit, driven by a Yocto-I2C-C, all enclosed in a 3D-printed plastic case.

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Google Calendar on your Yocto-Display-ePaper-C

Twelve years ago, we built a DIY project that displayed upcoming events from a Google Calendar on a Yocto-MaxiDisplay that was built into a kitchen cabinet. This week, we're going to update this setup so that it uses our new Yocto-Display-ePaper-C module and shows the events on an ePaper display. We'll also take this opportunity to simplify the code and get rid of the OAuth2 authentication system.

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