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Excellent question! After the keynote presentation where this was introduced, I was really looking forward to see what would be invented. I thought it could ope
by Timothee 17y ago
Excellent question! After the keynote presentation where this was introduced, I was really looking forward to see what would be invented. I thought it could open the door to a lot of cool things. An iPhone could basically become the interface to anything.
I looked at the program to see if I could just kind of play with it and see what could be done, (maybe not do anything but at least start imagining projects) but as seiji is saying, it's not as easy as the iPhone SDK where a free account and a download allow you to give it a try: you need a real company behind it and hobbyists have no chance.
Does anybody know if anything is possible through the jailbroken community? Can one do something on their own with the iPod/iPhone adapter?
- olefoo 17y agoAlthough it's very tempting to build highly integrated hardware extensions for the very sexy devices that apple makes there is a better way to go about building specialty hardware. Build for the wireless LAN. Adding a webserver and wifi interface to even a modestly sized hardware device is cheap and getting cheaper. Open Protocols win in the long term. Note that this means you should be able to reach most of the app phones on the market, and not be stuck with Vendor A's weird policy bugs.
- Timothee 17y agoAfter writing my comment, I thought about it and realized that, yes, communication through WiFi just makes sense and is probably the easiest. (as in the given example of the universal remote once setup is done)
- ryanpetrich 17y agoSerial has been available since 1.x and has been used by a number of hobbiest hacks. Bluetooth has recently matured with the public version of BTstack (there are bluetooth keyboard and mouse apps available on Cydia and RFCOMM is available)