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Yoctopuce
Company blog · yoctopuce.com/EN/articlehardware
Yoctopuce is the company blog at yoctopuce.com, writing about hardware. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link Yoctopuce's USB sensor and electrical product pages, often for Python scripting on a Raspberry Pi. One linked article covers how to reach high USB device counts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Yoctopuce designs, manufactures and sells USB devices for automatic system builders.
What Hacker News says?
There are also cheap-ish USB devices that can do that [1] that you can stick in a raspberry pi and control with pretty much any language including python. For someone who shouldn’t be trusted with high voltage like me that’s the right level of tinkering. [1] https://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/products/category/usb-electrica...
Comment linking /EN/products/category/usb-electrical-sensors
on “The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)”Submitted USB-driven sensors with libraries for popular langs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI use an USB light sensor to automatically adjust the display brightness with ddcctl. http://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/products/usb-environmental-senso...
Comment linking /EN/products/usb-environmental-sensors/yocto-light-v3
on “Mac keyboard shortcuts”Submitted USB cables: shielding matters as well (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you want high quality usb sensors: https://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/products/category/usb-environme...
Comment linking /EN/products/category/usb-environmental-sensors
on “Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam”Submitted USB Cables: Size Matters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt is possible to purchase a small USB lux meter: http://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/products/usb-environmental-senso... I use one to automatically adjust the brightness of my Dell display.
Comment linking /EN/products/usb-environmental-sensors/yocto-light-v3
on “Setting Emacs theme based on ambient light”Submitted There is now a Node.js library for Yoctopuce sensors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUnrelated but when I saw the title I thought it would be about yoctopuce, which are usb environment sensors that are easy to script for in python or other languages. I used them to create a few weather station loggers using raspberry pis. http://www.yoctopuce.com
Comment linking /
on “Building Raspberry Pi Systems with Yocto”Not sure, if your experience is more dictated by USB hub limitations, rather than hitting a Windows limit that soon. Here’s an interesting page describing how to best get to high USB device counts[0] [0] https://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/article/how-many-usb-devices-ca...
Comment linking /EN/article/how-many-usb-devices-can-you-connect
on “Logic board with 20 USB3 ports”I'm using a Yocto Meteo v2 for that, it's expensive but it's very good hardware and software: https://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/products/usb-environmental-sens...
Comment linking /EN/products/usb-environmental-sensors/yocto-meteo-v2
on “Monitoring My Weather at Home”http://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/article/first-tests-of-the-lidar...
Comment linking /EN/article/first-tests-of-the-lidar-lite-telemeter
on “LIDAR Lite Test: A Quick'n Dirty Laser Organ”