GTA05 suggestions

Jeff Sadowski jeff.sadowski at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 15:54:30 CEST 2008


It would be cool to have one as a USB host and another as usb client.

2008/8/29 Dale Maggee <antisol at internode.on.net>:
> 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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