Homemade Accessoires

[Eggert]

Hi,

I am new to the board, great that I found it.

I am planning to create some cool accessoires for th XDA2 but I neet your help.

Do you know how the O2-keyboard (foldable) works? I think it connects to the interface? Is it a "standard" keyboard with an adapter maybe PS2 -> Interface of the XDA2?
It is so expensive that I want to build a homemade one.

Next step would be to create a remote control for the MP3-Player. Pressing one button opens it, then one for play, stop etc. I think you can program the buttons like Winamp, pressing "X" is play and "C" is pause or something else. The buttons for accepting a call/ignore it may not be missed.

Third Idea is an external battery pack. The official backpack is hard to get and again really expensive! My Discman has something like that, put 2 AA-batteries into a box which can be connected to the power-supply-port. I think input is 5V, correct? Are the pins the same like the ones of the XDA1?

Thanks,
David

[Rudegar]

the problem is that unless you can get all the info here you kinda need to buy the org extre batt and keyboard to see how they work

you might also be prepared to write your own drivers for your own accessoires

making a good quality home made accessoi may end up being more expensive then buying what you can already get, same thing apply to every prototype of an accessoi

good luck though

this page is of cause a good place to start
http://xda-developers.com/connectors/

[Eggert]

Maybe...

but I think making an adapter for PS2-Keyboards to the interface of the XDA cannot be such expensive.

We'll see... :)

David