Some IO hack ideas...Re: As I fear - no. Re: io ports besides usb & audio?

[Robert Michel]

Salve soeren!

soeren at heisrath.org schrieb am Montag, den 22. Januar 2007 um 17:23h:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:00:52PM +0100, Robert Michel wrote:
> > I hope you (and other hardware hackers) are not to much disapointed and
> > do use OpenMoko and Neo1973 for cool and interesting projects and hacks.
> > As more is be done, as more is populare to do with OpenMoko Neo1973 as
> > more it is likly that FIC will support more connectors and build in
> > things in the later generations of the Neo1973.
> Not at all -- i'll find some... if it all fails, i'll try bitbanging via
> the one that are used micro-sd slot ;)

Hey this sounds good :)))

Quick ideas:
(<kidding>Sean and all official Neo1973 developer please stop reading
 here - this ideas should give you no reason to do not use the last days
 untill shipping to add some smart solderpoints on the circuit board
 that everyone who will use the SPI, uart I2C or audio-in could hack 
 it and spend some additional jacks to the Neo1973)
 
The external USB could be catched internaly,
the SIM slot could be multiplexed - send a high on one SIM conector
and you could use a small chip to switch this port:
In some of earlier threads are already some ideas around switching
and multiplexing SDIO of the mikroSD and SIM slot
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/000060.html

Swithing the SIM port:
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/000131.html

Happy hacking ;)
rob