follower prototyped a 2-line outside screen for his Nexus One utilizing an Arduino with a USB hold Shield, as well as the Android open accessory Protocol. There are two fundamental software application pieces at work: an Arduino sketch that handles showing data sent from the phone, as well as a lightweight android app to spot the existence of the outside screen as well as send data to it. As shown here, it diplays the time as well as the beginning of the most just recently got SMS message.
This job coalesced from a number of other things follower had been working on with regards to USB accessories, background services, interfacing with the Arduino as well as managing SMS messages, so it’s modular as well as open-source. If you’re thinking about mashing up microcontroller jobs as well as your android phone, there’s lots of stuff in this job to assist you get off the ground.
As hacks go, this is extremely much a “because you can” kind of offer that’s created to tie a lot of awesome things together. You’re unlikely to catch us bring an LCD as well as breadboard around in our pockets any type of time soon, however it paves the method for some potentially fun phone accessories.