[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am I right that I would need to solder some more things to make this
whole construction work? I mean, I have to spend these 5V to the Neo for
charging,
and still need the other pins for transferring data from the USB drive
to the Neo.
So I would have to split the cable, right?
I recently bought an APC UPB10 portable USB battery -- see
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=UPB10
When the Neo gets its kernel support for USB host mode, I'm going to try
to wire it up as an auxiliary power source for USB peripherals like
thumb drives.
Look at this picture:
http://www.apc.com/products/moreimages.cfm?partnum=UPB10&aPos=5
As you will see, it has a female mini-B socket from which it charges
itself, and a female full-size A socket to which it supplies power.
Right now I haven't figured out how it's internally wired -- whether the
data lines on those two sockets go anywhere. I'd like to wire them
together (as a sort of USB-thru adapter), and also build a mini-B to
mini-B cable with the power lines disconnected.
With this setup, in theory, I could put the Neo in host mode, hook the
custom cable up to the Neo and the battery brick, and plug a thumb drive
directly into the power brick. The thumb drive would get power from the
brick and at the same time the data lines would go through to the Neo.
I don't know whether this will function as I hope, but I'm going to give
it a shot. I'll put something on the wiki (and post again here) if it
works out.
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