A Java library to control an i-Buddy (a 3-inch tall blinking and moving USB figureine, see http://www.i-buddy.com/ ). Currently it is only supported / tested under Windows.

I-BuddyShop

In .NET or python

JLibIBuddy

Needs Java libusb / libusb-win32

Benoit Lubek

Original maven repo http://www.jraf.org/static/maven/2/org/jraf/jlibibuddy/

We need to create backup archives for artifacts org.jraf:jlibibuddy:1.1 (see and the sourceforge) and libusbjava:libusbjava-native-win32:0.2.3.0 which are hosted on a private maven repository. The Libusbjava code have been forked:

tedious to get libusb working while porting to linux, use other project instead:

https://github.com/tietomaakari/ibuddy-lkm

still this git fork should once be done

and we have te maven artifact in gradle

Installation

For linux, use libusb?

Usage

Using the library is very simple as shown by this example:

import org.jraf.jlibibuddy.IBuddy;
import org.jraf.jlibibuddy.IBuddyException;
import org.jraf.jlibibuddy.IBuddyUtils;


(...)


// get the i-Buddy
IBuddy iBuddy = IBuddy.getIBuddy();

// send some low level commands directly
iBuddy.sendHeadColor(IBuddy.Color.RED);
iBuddy.sendHeart(true);

// use IBuddyUtils to send higher levels commands
IBuddyUtils.flap(iBuddy, 400, 7);


(...)

Credits

Most of the USB code was done following the code posted by "Tom" at http://cuntography.com/blog/?p=17. (dead)

Contact

Contact the author: BoD@JRAF.org .