Odrioid is yet another tiny board capable of running Linux or Android. It’s only 48mm x 52mm, yet it features a 1.7 GHz quad core Cortex A9 processor, the Mali-400 quad core GPU, and 2 GBs of DDR2. Unfortunately there … Read more
Dolabra connected his Bus Pirate to the Nexus 7 tablet. All it takes is an OTG USB cable and a serial app to get your Bus Pirate going. I have been playing around with USB OTG on my new nexus … Read more
A few weeks ago we posted that the FT311D Android Open Accessory (AOA) ICs didn’t support AOA 2.0 devices. This has been rectified in the latest silicon revision (rev C.). The device required a change to enable connection to the … Read more
We designed a breakout board for the FT311D Android Open Accessory (AOA) ICs. We got the prototypes in our workshop, and in the free PCB drawer. Only thing missing is for FTDI to start selling them. In this waiting period … Read more
Today’s 3D model is the latest board from our shop, the FT311D Android Open Accessory IC Breakout Board. It’s designed on our DP6037 standard sized board, for compstibility with out Sick of Beige cases. Check out out Sick of Beige customization tutorial explaining how … Read more
We added the recently released FT311D Android Open Accessory host USB IC in a LQFP-32 package to our Eagle library. The device makes it easy to communicate to Android devices using the Android Open Accessory Mode available on Android platforms … Read more
FTDI released the FT311D USB host IC for easy communication with Android devices. It features 7 GPIOs, one I2C peripheral, one UART, one SPI, and 4 PWM peripherals. The device acts as a USB host to an Android device, … Read more
Adam unboxes the Meizu Mx and gets root access using the Bus Pirate. The phone is torn down to the main-board to gain access to the UART test points on the board. After that it was a simple matter of … Read more
Atmel describes how to control an AVR chip from an Android device. This document introduces the Android Open Accessory Protocol for Atmel® microcontrollers. The library and examples are included in the Atmel AVR® Software Framework (ASF) to provide the customer … Read more
Liquidware is developing a 7” open source hardware Android tablet called Amber. The Amber is a 7” projected capacitive tablet driven by a 1 GHz, ARM Cortex-A9 OMAP3730 from Texas Instruments. We’ve customized a version of Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 to … Read more
N3mesys successfully controlled the Bus Pirate with an Android Tablet using the USB Serial Monitor app. This software lets Android enabled devices connect to FTDI USB-to-serial chips. The FT232RL and FT230X ICs are supported, so this works with older Arduinos … Read more
Adam unboxes the Aura Design Life Pad, and immediately proceeds to tear-it-down. After soldering some wires to the UART port on the board he explains how to debug this Android Tabled with the Bus Pirate. Via the forum.
ArduinoCommander is an Android app for controlling an Arduino via a Bluetooth shield: display board firmware version, name and Firmata protocol version set pin mode (analog/digital input/output, pwm) get/set pin values read messages from the board (Firmata String Sysex message) … Read more
Cameron tipped us to a circuit simulator for Android devices. It looks a lot like the java based circuit simulator we wrote about a few weeks ago. Everycircuit seems like a useful tool if you want to play around with … Read more
Trev writes to inform us of an Android computer in a USB key. This device is now being prototyped by FXI and has been code named Cotton Candy. “The Cotton Candy is a USB stick sized computer device that allows … Read more
Ytai demoed an IOIO android development board over Bluetooth. Connect the board to your Android enabled device and control various IO pins on the board: IOIO is a board providing I/O connectivity for Android. Until recently it would use a USB connection … Read more
A new internet controlled lighting project called SplashLight is being developed. It has 4 relays to turn lights on and off, and 3 PWM outputs to drive RGB LEDs. The core of the project is a Cortex M3 uC with … Read more
Here is a video from Hive 13 that shows how an Android tablet is used to control a glass block LED matrix via a wireless connection. After installing a LED matrix behind a glass block wall in their bathroom, hackers … Read more
TitanMKD has finished up his USB host driver for Android open accessory on EvalBot. He added an external power supply for host applications that can now draw up to the 500mA specified by the USB standard. He also provided an … Read more
TitanMKD posted an EvalBot driver for Android Open Accessory (ADK): I have just finished to develop an USB Host Driver for Android Open Accessory on EvalBot (it should work also with any other Stellaris ARM chipset supporting USB OTG). The … Read more
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