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josephwegner on Sept 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: A new breed of Chrome Apps

Chrome extensions have had access to external devices for a long time. It's not often used, but I've done stuff implementing chrome + arduino.

http://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_hardware.html

A quick google search shows: https://github.com/BertHartm/Chromeduino

talkingquickly on Sept 6, 2013 [–]

Absolutely, I've also done some proof of concepts like that but for production use the "in browser" experience didn't really cut it for my uses.

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