Google ADK/ADS non-Arduino Mega2560

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I’m surprised there isn’t any traffic here about the Google I/O announcements around an Arduino clone.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html

Perhaps I’m just searching badly. Anyway, I’ve looked at the hardware vendor they link but I can’t even figure out how much this costs in USD. I’d much rather deal with SparkFun. Given that this seems to be an open platform I’m wondering if SparkFun will be developing something that would be compatible?

I’m thinking that I probably should have put this in the “Projects and SparkFun Product Questions” forum. Don’t really want to cross post so maybe the moderator will move it?

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kminder:
I’m surprised there isn’t any traffic here about the Google I/O announcements around an Arduino clone.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html

Perhaps I’m just searching badly.

I found your post by searching here for the Android@Home which I’m trying to find more information on, I think we’ll see more after I/O finishes and the developer community begin to start digesting what they’ve seen.

From what I’ve read it should be possible to port the ADK to any of the development boards equiped with a MCU equivalent to the Mega2560 or above.

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There is significant discussion on hack-a-day and adafruit (more in blogs currently than in forums. Only a couple people have the kit.)

http://hackaday.com/2011/05/11/official … n-arduino/

http://www.adafruit.com/blog?s=adk

One of the Adafruit references is for a site with instructions on how to run the software on standard Arduino hardware (MEGA + USB Host Shield), which is especially significant since the official kit is 1) sold out, and 2) very expensive (~$400)

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I added support for ADK code to the standard library → http://www.circuitsathome.com/mcu/progr … ry_release

Enjoy,

/felis

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You don’t need the kit, you can buy a standard Arduino and Oleg’s USB host shield. Here’s a write-up on how to do it:

http://romfont.com/2011/05/12/google%E2 … -hardware/

If you don’t have a 2.3.4 device, you can use the ADB protocol instead:

http://romfont.com/2011/05/15/microbrid … r-arduino/

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Apart from the workload - what is to stop someone porting the ADK to an Olimex board or what ever board we wish?

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@PhatBob: nothing, really. There’s already a port to the Fez, and I think YTai will add support to his IOIO pretty soon, too.