Connecting Arduino to iPhone/iPod serial

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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I did this with my ipod touch jailbreaked 2.0.2. Hardware wise I used a cable from :http://www.rush2112.net/mkportal/modules/oscommerce/product_info.php?products_id=34&osCsid=623417921d61d5ff5d81100e93fc1cf6, although they used to just sell the ipod to 8-din cable. Tx from ipod goes straight into Arduino, While Rx goes through 1k resistor(3.3v). Software wise I have accomplished three different things:

  1. Using Minicom from the Cydia installer to talk like a terminal.

  2. Use a GPSShield from Ladyada to get NMEA GPS data into xGPS, also found in Cydia.

  3. Used Iphone/Python and this:tsb.py - a telnet to serial bridge as a Wifi Serial port, through which I could control a simple servo robot with this: Wifi Robot - JBProjects.net

If you would like me to elaborate on any of these, just ask. It was a little while ago, but I can still try and help.