[maemo-developers] PUSH N900 (Was Re: N900 usb host + power charge)

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Sunday 20 September 2009 23:11:07 Kees Jongenburger wrote:
> I indeed planed to use usb-host in my project. perhaps we can use the
> connectors behind the battery, previous models
> used to have serial there.
> If anybody has a bright ideas on how to connect something to the n900
> that would be great.

Well if you need just serial and don't mind the expense, probably the easiest 
way is a bluetooth modem, a la 
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=582

A bit more out-of-the-box thinking is to do things backwards, i.e. get a beefy 
microcontroller that does USB host mode or USB OTG, and have the N900 connect 
to that. This will also require some software wizardry as the N900 will want 
to present itself as mass storage, but maybe that can be hacked/tweaked.