usb

uhubctl is a command-line utility to control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs, supporting a wide range of compatible hubs.

USB-Uncensored-LLM is an open-source project that can load large language models like Gemma and Qwen into a USB drive, enabling plug-and-play, offline operation, cross-platform compatibility. Users can use a private AI assistant on any computer without the need for internet.

Using a SCSI-to-USB adapter to connect a 90MB Bernoulli disk from the 1980s to a Wii U, successfully installed and ran the Game Boy Advance game 'Metroid Fusion', demonstrating a compatibility experiment between retro storage media and a modern game console.

This paper details a novel bootROM vulnerability in Apple A12/A13 SoCs, exploiting a hardware bug in the USB controller and a configuration flaw to achieve boot-chain compromise. A proof-of-concept is provided.

The article discusses the evolution and benefits of USB Power Delivery (PD) and USB Extended Power Range (EPR), which are set to enable faster, higher-power charging for a wide range of devices across automotive, consumer electronics, and aerospace markets.

A developer reverse-engineers the proprietary Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X soundbar USB protocol to control it from Linux, documenting the process of capturing traffic, deobfuscating firmware, and analyzing commands.

A reverse-engineered open-source Linux userspace driver for the ASUS ZenVision lid OLED screen, allowing users to display images and animations on the 256×64 panel that ASUS only officially supports on Windows. The USB protocol was reverse-engineered from the MyASUS app using Ghidra.

A review of Universal Audio's Volt 876 USB audio interface, highlighting its plug-and-play simplicity, high-quality preamps, and seamless expansion via ADAT, though noting the lack of an iOS console app.

Headunit Revived is an Android app that turns a tablet or phone into an Android Auto receiver, supporting wired USB and wireless connections.

scrcpy v4.0 is an open-source tool for mirroring Android devices via USB or TCP/IP, offering low latency and high performance.