Discotool: USB Arduino type boards discovery library and tool
29 points by nateb2022 6 days ago | 6 comments
  • Liftyee 4 days ago |
    Had to identify an unknown microcontroller earlier today and was thinking, "Surely there's a tool for this?!"

    HN did not disappoint! This aptly-named utility definitely beats trial and error uploading. Next time I'll give it a try.

  • ugh123 4 days ago |
    This looks like it would be really useful for bulk provisioning of boards.
  • therafman 4 days ago |
    Just love it! The list of serial ports found on the board is priceless for me. Thank you!
  • tetris11 4 days ago |
    Useful for identifying the myriad of esp32* variants out there
    • extraduder_ire 3 days ago |
      Can it actually tell specific esp boards apart?

      That'd be a lifesaver. I've often spent longer trying to find the closest sounding board name to what's silkscreened on the bottom of an esp board than I have writing code or programming it.

      • tetris11 3 days ago |
        Upon testing: no, it doesn't even know it's an ESP board, just some "USB Single Serial" device.