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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That, I would like to see…
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.
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??
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
Thanks Ytai! Something interesting to keep me out of trouble this weekend….
Get a real frickin yoyo dumbasses
Obvious troll…lol
has already happened, you can do a lot of work with android