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

[Mitch Altman]

> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 22:50:37 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Andriod / Arduino hacking anyone? -- Sunday, 3pm, at Noisebridge‏‏
> From: jof at thejof.com
> To: drj at v.gg
> CC: maltman23 at hotmail.com; jake at spaz.org; tfullhart at google.com; robwasab at gmail.com; ydewit at gmail.com; noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net; rolfvw at gmail.com; michael at michaelshiloh.com; tamayo at gmail.com
> 
> 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.
 
Please share your results, and how you did what you did -- regardless of outcome (positive or negative).
 
Thanks,
Mitch.

  		 	   		  
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