Does anyone know of a project in the works for a communication with mobile phones via USB. I can't find anything.
Think of the possibilities these small devices could have with the added capabilities of a mobile phone plugged into the USB port.
-Mobile user interface to device.
-GPS capabilities
-Wireless data/communications to computer or other Arduino device.
-Remote access to your Arduino device.
The possibilities for the Arduino devices would be endless and would open the market for cheaply developing new products.
I think the key would be developing a good protocol that would allow most of the same features and function calls no matter what phone you used as long as the phone had the protocol package installed.
The project would initially have to work with some major phone provider to develop the standard in incorporate the standard. Once it took off other phone providers would add it to there platform as to not loose that market share.
Hi,
You might want to check out AVR freaks. I know there were some projects about interfacing with a cell phone, or at least parts of it. http://www.avrfreaks.net/
There's no "drop in" way to interface to a cell phone, in general. A few of them have serial ports, but need weird custom connectors.
When, O When are cell phone makers going to wise up and just put a USB port on the stupid phones!?! Then they wouldn't have to make 50bazillion different chargers and cables. A USB port could be used to program, upgrade, charge and access the cell phone easily. Is that so freakin hard? Grr!!!
I looked and didn't see anything related to directly communicating with the phone. One project was interpreting sounds from the phone to to change movement directions.