All development boards will have a USB interface which generally comes up as a serial port. You can then just fire bytes back and forth in whatever way you plea

All development boards will have a USB interface which generally comes up as a serial port. You can then just fire bytes back and forth in whatever way you please. For a comparison of different boards, see: http://hackaday.com/2011/02/01/what-development-board-to-use/ http://hackaday.com/2011/02/01/what-development-board-to-use...