Rather than wait for the pricey Google ADK hardware, Mario Bohmer decided to hack away at Android accessory development on his own. Since the Google firmware was based on their dev board, he had to port the firmware and software for use with the Arduino Uno and a USB Host Shield. He reports success using the procedure explained in detail on his website.
Most significantly, he didn’t use Google’s USB_HOST_SHIELD library opting instead for a patched version, as well as a stripped down version of demokit.pde. All the necessary software is available through Mario’s website.
Thanks Mario! Via the contact form.
What resources would you suggest for young teens who have received the arduio kit from amazon this week? who want to quickly cross over into java/c++ with android hw.