Hey fellow hackers,
I am trying to determine if, on a Photon, I can read data from the USB port or if I have to use the pins and wiring. I’d like to connect an Atlas Scientific D.O. sensor mounted on their isolated USB carrier board via USB to the Photon, and be able to write some code running on the Photon that can read that data from the USB port.
I know I can do this with a Raspberry Pi Zero W, but can I do this with the Particle Photon, or do I have to wire it up to the I/O pins on the Photon instead of just using USB?
No, but most people using the Atlas sensors are reading the output data from the sensors using I2C which the Photon can communicate with. So you will not need to try to read the data via USB.
If that’s the only sensor you want to use then you may want to get this breakout board>