you can use FTDI UART chip in BITBANG MODE it is cheap, durable and universal which can be used as  a communication converter from USB to serial using 5v TTL level and vice versa,  or you can use it as USB to GPIO and vise versa.

hope it is helpful

thats exactly what i did..thank you so much. :)

you are welcome :)

You could use this:

https://github.com/wiesener/daqbeagle

Constantin Wiesener daqbeagle doesn't work any more in Debian 9.5.

Seems like low level libraries should be updated.