Map a golf cart controller from its Windows app to a portable C library
At a glance
An HN commenter used Claude, ILSpy and Wireshark to turn a Windows-only golf cart configuration workflow into a portable C library and CLI. This workflow is listed under reverse-engineering, hardware-integration, usb, coding-assistants.
Posting as ryandrake, they described a motor controller programmable over USB through a Windows application. Claude guided them through inspecting the application's .NET assembly with ILSpy, capturing the USB protocol with Wireshark and mapping the configuration tool's functionality into a portable C library and command-line program.
How it went
They reported that the resulting library and CLI worked well in their use.
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