IOIO Lets You Control Your Electronics Project From Your Android Phone

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2011/04/08 @ 6:58 am
Category Computers & Mobile, Electronics

Ytai from Tel Aviv wrote in with a cool new board he developed:

I’m very excited to announce the launch of a new product I’ve been working on for the past months! IOIO (pronounced: yo-yo) is a product which lets you connect electronic circuits to an Android device and control them from an Android application. It is comprised of a small (2.7×1.2″ = 7x3cm) PCB that connects to an Android device with a USB cable and a software library (Java .jar file) that you use in your Android app which handles all communications with the board.

No firmware programming is required – only Android application authoring with a very simple API for controlling the pins on the board. No modification of the Android device is required – you avoid the complication of modification and the voiding of warranty.

The board will be available from Sparkfun.

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7 Responses to IOIO Lets You Control Your Electronics Project From Your Android Phone

Mauricio Fleury on April 8th, 2011 at 2:42 pm said:

That, I would like to see…

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Mats Engstrom on April 8th, 2011 at 3:12 pm said:

Nicely done! I think it’s a bit expensive at $49.95, but Sparkfun never been cheap OTOH….

Maybe you can have Seeedstudio make a batch of them? I’m sure then will sell rather well.

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Laura F. Walton on April 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm said:

Soooo….I have this Droid X…I have this habit of tinkering with Arduino-based schtuff…now I have IOIO. Seems entirely awesome, but I haven’t actually learned to develop for Android; I’m a hunt-and-peck C++ girl at best. What kind of learning curve will I be facing??

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- Ytai Ben-Tsvi on April 8th, 2011 at 5:50 pm said:
  
  The IOIO side is fairly easy from someone with an Arduino background.
  To get an idea on Android app development, see:
  http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html
  
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  Laura F. Walton on April 9th, 2011 at 3:04 am said:
  
  Thanks Ytai! Something interesting to keep me out of trouble this weekend….
  
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Scott Gordon on April 8th, 2011 at 7:31 pm said:

Get a real frickin yoyo dumbasses

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- rongallagher92 on April 9th, 2011 at 8:20 pm said:
  
  Obvious troll…lol
  
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