Re: [Xcsoar-user] IOIO question

2011-12-03 Thread Simon Taylor
Sorry chaps, fun discussion for the electronics enthusiastics on the mailing list, but completely off topic. :) Please continue this interesting discussion to the IOIO-users group ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ioio-users ) or the relevant group for the other devices discussed. Thanks!

Re: [Xcsoar-user] IOIO question

2011-12-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 16:32 -0800, Ytai Ben-Tsvi wrote: > But on the other hand - why not use an Arduino? Can you add more detail on > the application you're trying to achieve? > I have an ancient FLEX09 system which has both DS/DD 80 track and SD/DS 40 track 5.25" drives that I'd like to recover d

Re: [Xcsoar-user] IOIO question

2011-12-02 Thread Scott Penrose
On 03/12/2011, at 11:32 AM, Ytai Ben-Tsvi wrote: > > But on the other hand - why not use an Arduino? Can you add more detail on > the application you're trying to achieve? I have a USBDroid I am going to connect up soon as an alternative to try. I suspect that the Arduino will be slightly high

Re: [Xcsoar-user] IOIO question

2011-12-02 Thread Ytai Ben-Tsvi
John's answer is accurate (and thanks for the acknowledgement). One possibility that should in theory be very simple, although I've never explored it, is to use IOIO in its Bluetooth mode ( ytai-mer.blogspot.com/2011/10/ioio-over-bluetooth-or-who-needs-cables.html) and run the Java library on a PC

Re: [Xcsoar-user] IOIO question

2011-12-02 Thread John Wharington
Hi Martin, The IOIO has a PIC24F microcontroller which has USB host functionality. Communications with android is implemented in software. Theoretically I suppose you could hook it up to linux but I'm not sure how you'd do the host to host bridging. Most PC linux devices are USB hosts, you unde

[Xcsoar-user] IOIO question

2011-12-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
I have an interfacing job to do, nothing to do with Android, that looks like something an IOIO board might help with. I've been looking at the SparkFun site but all it talks about is Android specific phone interfacing. I could find little or nothing about the generaal capabilities of the thing, but