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iPhone external keyboard without hacking, but on iPhone 2.0 SDK

by Josh Holat on Mar 25, 2009 at 02:03 PM
iPhone With Hardware Keyboard

Two PerceptDev engineers by the names of Zack Gainsforth and George Dean have been able to get an infrared keyboard working with their iPhone. At first, you may be thinking that they simply are using the 3.0 SDK with allows developers to communicate with devices plugged in to the 30 pin connector, but they aren’t. This hack simply uses less that $20 worth of hardware and an audio port modem.

According to the site, “Zack used a Cypress PSoC microcontroller to emulate a simple modem, and then expanded it to detect an infrared signal or read from a USB host controller, which converts this signal to FSK for transmission to an iPhone.”  If you ask me, that doesn’t sound like anything that more than a few people will be doing anytime soon. Still, the idea is still really cool, nonetheless. What do you think?

Via [Perceptive Development]

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