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1Sheeld: Replace your Arduino shields with your smart phone

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Re: 1Sheeld: Replace your Arduino shields with your smart phone

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What ever happened to the Android Accessory Development Kit? Wasn't this what ADK was supposed to be? Like, 2 years ago?

My best guess is that it was something of a gimmick for Google I/O. They never seemed well-supported by Google. An alternative to ADK is the Android USB Host driver support. It's like libusb: for phones with the right USB controller, you can write little drivers in Java/userspace. Here's an Android library you can use to talk to almost any Arduino, great for these type of "make my microcontroller smarter" application…

Yeah when I heard about it I was really excited. I was big into Arduino back then. But unfortunately didn't have an Android phone.

Then the only time I heard of anyone owning the ADK was my friend who worked at Google. It seems they kindof gave them out as party favors. I thought it was a great idea & wished it would take off but unfortunately had to move away from Arduino anyway to focus on web engineering career and to this day(!) I don't own a smartphone.

Re: 1Sheeld: Replace your Arduino shields with your smart phone

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Just Backed this up, and i had a chance to talk to their team and they are super nice, intelligent hardware makers in Egypt, if not the best.the kit uses the hardware components in your mobile device as if its embedded inside, and communicated with your device over a secured bluetooth channel.

What about WiFi?

I think they have plans for that after they have fully pledged their KickStarter.
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