do you like C puzzles? do you want to learn libusb?

[bob 295]

I am the facilitator for a 12 year old open source project aimed at bringing 
QNX style Send/Receive/Reply messaging to Linux users.  
(http://www.icanprogram.com/simpl).

For a while I've been facinated by the possibilities of marrying the SIMPL 
toolkit to an embedded Linux device produced by a Canadian company in 
Calgary: Phidgets. (http://www.icanprogram.com/opndrs/phidgets).

The current Phidgets library can be generously described as a complex C 
puzzle.   The key to unraveling this puzzle and recasting things in the SIMPL 
framework involves a move from the current libusb-0.1 to libusb-1.0 ... 
neither of which I know much about.    The Phidgets staff has taken the 
approach that "if it ain't broke ... don't mess with it" ... so unfortunately 
we are largely on our own to untangle the currrent code puzzle and recast it 
in a simpler way.     

If you like solving C puzzles and want to learn libusb stuff all the while 
working with an embedded Linux product,  don't hesitate to contact me 
offlist.    Alas everyone working on this project will be doing so gratis ...

Thanks.

bob

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