On Aug 28, 8:32 am, Kit <kitduna...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new to android and have found an interest in using an android > powered phone to control a Pololu robotics servo controller/uart > bridge (link to device below). I'm wondering if this is possible and > what the best way to go about doing it would be. The device uses a usb > port to send and receive data, it would also be valuable to be able to > integrate the accelerometers, digital compasses and gps chips within > the phone. For example the G1 or MyTouch seem to be likely candidates > for the phone portion because they also incorporate a mini usb port. > Please let me know what you think.
The USB will not work, because neither the G1 nor the Magic (Mytouch) presently have USB host capability, they are USB devices which must be connected to an external computer, and your servo board is the same, so you would have two devices with no host computer. There is some suspicion that the underlying chips might be capable of host mode, but I've not heard of anyone making it work and the main PCB could well need modification. The Neo Freerunner from open moko is a not entirely dissimilar embedded linux phone (which can run android to some degree, though it was not designed to and isn't officially and android phone) and does have USB host mode (it's not 3g, or as debugged as a phone, but then your project probably doesn't require either). The G1, or at least the ADP1 had a sort of debug serial port on the extusb connector, and it sounds like the servo interface you were looking at has a serial/uart version available. This probably would work if you can figure out how to turn it on (possibly even in a Magic) - probably need to recompile the kernel or at least a kernel module and have the ability to install the result on the phone, which you can't officially do on a carrier-branded phone. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
