So, I'm getting tired of always installing the weird "zadig" drivers for the FT232H. (Otherwise, Adafruit has done a great job with the Python library to drive this chip).
I've used the Aardvark / Cheetah to do SPI/I2C and those are great, pro-level tools. But, $$$.
What's out there that lets me control a few, lets say 4 to 8, simple GPIO pins from a Windows host? Something without weird drivers that I (and my clients!) have to install manually and that I can access from Python.
Something perhaps that presents itself as USB CDC on the host side, and that has a simple serial API for controlling the GPIOs. Alternately, something that comes up as USB HID, but where someone has already developed a Python-accessible API? The FT260 is a good looking chip, but no one has wrapped the API yet..
Obviously, I've googled around, but would be keen to hear some practical experience / tips / etc.