[Noisebridge-discuss] Andriod / Arduino hacking anyone? -- Sunday, 3pm, at Noisebridge‏‏

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Dr. Jesus <drj at v.gg> wrote:
> 2011/6/3 Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>:
>> A couple of weeks ago Google announced the ability for Android to connect
>> with Arduino to be used as a cheap, easy-to-use hardware development
>> platform. Google then created ADK (Android Development Kit, based on
>> Arduino), which is not cheap -- but they gave a bunch away for free at the
>> Maker Faire last weekend.
>> http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html
>> and
>> http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/05/10/google-launches-android-open-accessory-development-kit-based-on-arduino/
>>
>>
>> Since most of us are relatively clueless on how to hack Android phones, or
>> how to connect them to Arduino to do cool things, a bunch of us are getting
>> together next Sunday to put our collective heads together to see how to make
>> it all work on our Android phones.
>>
>>
>> It is likely that a Google employee and Android developer (or two) will be
>> joining us to help out. Maybe there will even be an ADK (or more) to be
>> given away.
>
> Will there be Android hardware compatible with the ADK to develop on?
>
> The docs say that the ADK is only compatible with Android devices
> running Android 3.1 or 2.3.4, which are kind of rare right now .
> Android 3.1 is so new that no hardware vendor has even shipped an
> officially supported build yet.  In fact, I'm typing this at an event
> to promote the launch of the first Android 3.1 device, but the launch
> hasn't actually happened yet.  The vast majority of phones you can get
> at the store run 2.2.
>
> I wanted to use my phone to display ADC output from an Arduino
> recently, and I just used a Bluetooth to TTL serial adapter like this
> one:
>
> http://www.mdfly.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8_47&products_id=769
>
> They work fine for connecting an Arduino (or really, anything with a
> TTL UART) to all my other dev hardware with Bluetooth, Android or not.
>  They cost $10-15 each.  The one disadvantage is that you can't power
> the target hardware from the Android hardware's USB port.  Other than
> that, it seems to be a better and cheaper fit for my development than
> what the ADK is offering.

The "accessory" feature is something that they're targeting for 3.0,
but have backported it to 2.3.4.

I'm currently trying to get a G1 to run the latest Cyanogen mod
release that should hopefully have this.