I seen that breakout board before, that plus a hdmi micro female epoxied and coated would be ideal for sure. I thought about just adding a real hdmi and usb to the lapdock but that would be around 25 tiny wires and more trouble then its worth.
Lapdock HDMI
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this is an awesome concept! I am going to look at possibly making a pseudo dummy phone to put in the dock side for cleanliness. Gonna give a shot at plastic welding...
Your gonna use that board from spark wire and that connector from deal extreme and put in a dummy phone?
I've got one of those DealExtreme adapters on order, but it's been a week and they're still waiting on the supplier. Moreover, you'd need that adapter, a coupler, and then the HDMI cable, right? I just ordered these on eBay:
wwx.ebay.com/itm/140626354628
wwx.ebay.com/itm/140599435227
I figure that ought to be sufficient for a number of hdmi devices. USB is what needs work, and a number of you already have that in the works.
Also, for you guys worrying about these adapters fitting, once you pry apart the dock portion, the wires give you plenty of play. I've been using my lapdock without the port cover so I can plug my Atrix in while in it's Defender case.
wwx.ebay.com/itm/140626354628
wwx.ebay.com/itm/140599435227
I figure that ought to be sufficient for a number of hdmi devices. USB is what needs work, and a number of you already have that in the works.
Also, for you guys worrying about these adapters fitting, once you pry apart the dock portion, the wires give you plenty of play. I've been using my lapdock without the port cover so I can plug my Atrix in while in it's Defender case.
Hrm.... yeah, my fault. Unfortunately, my HDMI adapters are on backorder. Should have my USB breakouts this week though. I guess I was just thinking about the parts I'll actually have than what that user had purchased.
Does anyone know if the usb keyboard and mouse work without the hdmi connected? I'd love to be able to test this in case the hdmi adapters take a while to get here.
Does anyone know if the usb keyboard and mouse work without the hdmi connected? I'd love to be able to test this in case the hdmi adapters take a while to get here.
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Once the lapdock sees an hdmi signal it turns the usb on and the keyboard / mouse work like they should. I tested it out on my linux desktop machine and it worked flawless.
It should be fine with a little dremel help and epoxy to hold it together.
Yea that's the plan. Just worried about the board being too big and blocking the HDMI like another member mentioned. Take that breakout board with an hdmi one (lots of wires errr) and weld up a small plastic box to house it all is the plan. May just use the dealsextreme adapter in the box. Surely there would be room especially if my dummy phone is more of a box that sits on there with rubber stays.I'm measuring my lapdock out now.
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Now try attaching the Seagate dockstar that costs $25 to the $50 Lapdock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwVwFHDA5iE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwVwFHDA5iE
Even though it runs at 1.2ghz, it has no video out. Only usb so it would be painfully slow with usb video. As well the Marvell cpus aren't great to start with. panda board with an opmap 4 , 1x hdmi 1x dvi-d and audio out would murder it.
Does it require keepailve from USB?
Also, this: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/11/21/fxi-technology-cotton-candy-sweet-android-on-a-stick/
Once this comes out, if at a reasonable price, would make a modest portable laptop minus the phone.
Also, this: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/11/21/fxi-technology-cotton-candy-sweet-android-on-a-stick/
Once this comes out, if at a reasonable price, would make a modest portable laptop minus the phone.
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something that might be fun, if we weren't carrying our phones around, would be the raspberry pi.
http://www.raspberrypi.org
it's a credit card sized board for $25-$35 ( 128 mb vs 256 mb ram )
http://www.raspberrypi.org
it's a credit card sized board for $25-$35 ( 128 mb vs 256 mb ram )
These are by far the best option on the market right now far as arm dev boards for DIY.
http://pandaboard.org/content/resources/references
http://pandaboard.org/content/resources/references
I'm not that smart enough to understand what you guys are talking about with the usb and dummy phone project.......can anyone put it in simpler terms what you guys are trying to do?
The lapdock is pretty much a dummy usb kb/mouse & hdmi display. We're pointing out different things that could be done w/ it. Ie, a very small system on chip w/ usb ports & an hdmi out would allow the lapdock to be used as a cheap & light netbook-y unit w/o the phone plugged in.
But mainly, it's the fact that you can use the lapdock as an 11" hdmi monitor w/ audio for pretty much anything.
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But mainly, it's the fact that you can use the lapdock as an 11" hdmi monitor w/ audio for pretty much anything.
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I received the lapdock today, and flipped the connectors around for my Atrix 2 which was relatively easy.
I want to use it with my Atrix 2 which it works, but it only does Webtop, and the place where you would normally toggle whether to do webtop or mirror theres an error message that doesnt allow you to do change between the two which basically says This device is not optimized to run on the Lapdock
My question is there any way to get around that error message, I would really prefer to have it mirror instead of webtop.
Is there a file I can edit on phone, is there an hdmi wire I can snip that tells the atrix 2 its a webdock connected to it.
I used titanium backup to freeze Webtop 1.0 and when I plug into the dock it doesnt send any hdmi signal at all, the keyboard and trackpad work though.
Would running the hdmi wire through an hdmi extension kill the signal that says its a webdock connected to Atrix 2?
Would running the lapdck through my atrix 2 hd dock make it see it as a regular hdmi screen? And would running a usb cable extension from the lapdock with +5 connected damage the atrix 2 hd dock?
I want to use it with my Atrix 2 which it works, but it only does Webtop, and the place where you would normally toggle whether to do webtop or mirror theres an error message that doesnt allow you to do change between the two which basically says This device is not optimized to run on the Lapdock
My question is there any way to get around that error message, I would really prefer to have it mirror instead of webtop.
Is there a file I can edit on phone, is there an hdmi wire I can snip that tells the atrix 2 its a webdock connected to it.
I used titanium backup to freeze Webtop 1.0 and when I plug into the dock it doesnt send any hdmi signal at all, the keyboard and trackpad work though.
Would running the hdmi wire through an hdmi extension kill the signal that says its a webdock connected to Atrix 2?
Would running the lapdck through my atrix 2 hd dock make it see it as a regular hdmi screen? And would running a usb cable extension from the lapdock with +5 connected damage the atrix 2 hd dock?
i'm assuming your device is rooted? There's some preliminary mirroring available in the android dev section, but I think native mirroring was introduced for atrix 2 and the new lapdock
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