GTA05 suggestions

Dale Maggee antisol at internode.on.net
Sat Aug 30 04:51:29 CEST 2008


Lally Singh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Radek Bartoň <blackhex at post.cz> wrote:
>   
>> Card accesible from outside would be great too. Disassembling hood and SIM
>> card is really annoying so far.
>>     
>
> A second USB port would be nice, too.
>
> There's a lot of fun to be had in hooking external electronics to the
> OM.  Honestly, so much fun that it's really worth exploring.
>
> But, it's not really fair to expect OM to sell (or bundle in) all the
> little goodies we'd like, like the X10 transceiver, compass, etc.
>
> Instead, how about two screw bolts around one of the USB connectors
> (like the PSP) and some means of getting a little plastic case &
> electronics board that plugs in.  I'm thinking more of a listing with
> a 3rd party USB enclosure for custom electronics.  Let the community
> build the cool stuff, and we'll share what we did!  OM's only got to:
> 1) decide on a USB enclosure to be physically compatible with
> 2) add in the screw bolts around a USB port.
>
> And the rest of us can have all the fun hacking away with the possibilities :-)
>
>
>   
I think that this is a great idea, but to clarify, this should be a 
_second_ USB port, so that you can be charging / usb networking while 
using these add-on devices you buy/build...





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