DS serial interface

posted Jul 20th 2005 9:30am by Eliot Phillips
filed under: ds hacks, gameboy hacks, nintendo hacks

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natrium42, the original PassMe designer, has released a guide for building a serial interface on the Nintendo DS. It does require you to flash a new firmware on the Passme, but other than that it is just a matter of soldering wires to the RX and TX. He’s tested it with a keyboard, a bluetooth module, and a USB adapter. If you want to hook it to a computer you’ll need the level converter he suggests. There is a lot of potential here.

In other news: StoneCypher has offered a bounty for an open source TCP/IP implementation on the DS; it’s already broken $1100.

[thanks pete]

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wow this has a lot of possibilties i may have to actually buy one of these things. then again with the psp and emulators out it make me wonder why bother

Posted at 9:48 am on Jul 20th, 2005 by wolff

what happened to the how-tuesday? it was there and i commented, then vanished.

Posted at 9:58 am on Jul 20th, 2005 by mike

http://www.dslinux.org is working on getting Linux on the DS and they are doing a damn fine job.

But you people have to remember, some DS owners are sao dissapointed by the system that we will not be afraid to open it up and do some soldering.

And don’t forget the Play-Yan which is a Gameboy advanced card with an SD slot built in, allowing the Gameboy Micro to play Mp3’s and videos. A little Google could tell you more about that.

Posted at 10:30 am on Jul 20th, 2005 by Joe

what we really need is a memory stick web browser for the psp. i could just as easily download the whipout pure iso but that requires a gig memory stick and i just don’t have the cash.

Posted at 11:50 am on Jul 20th, 2005 by hark500

Did this page change today? I thought I saw a how to on phone ringtones.

Posted at 11:51 am on Jul 20th, 2005 by sammy

Looks like you got one upped boys. ;)

Here’s a keyboard mod for the PSP. GG.

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=4262

Posted at 12:01 pm on Jul 20th, 2005 by skittles

I dont understand how that would work. That seems to be a Serial interface and they can manage to get it to work as a USB host?! I am confused.

Posted at 12:16 pm on Jul 20th, 2005 by awdark

awdark, tfa links to the page for this USB to serial device: http://www.pololu.com/products/pololu/0391/

After all, usb is just a universial _serial_ bus.

Posted at 12:36 pm on Jul 20th, 2005 by Bucky

skittles, yeah, except that one doesn’t work.

Posted at 2:15 pm on Jul 20th, 2005 by Eliot Phillips

Not only does the PSP keyboard not do anything, the DS keyboard was done awhile ago, before the PSP one.

Posted at 10:36 pm on Jul 20th, 2005 by tj

= I think that is a USB to serial adapter not serial to USB.. I have something like that for a palm I use for palmorb.

Posted at 10:44 pm on Jul 20th, 2005 by awdark

Yah I can’t get my head round how it works…

Posted at 7:18 am on Jul 25th, 2005 by Uncover Japan

hey… the PSP has a serial port built in… you know where the headphone control plugs in? (the 6 pin slot beside the headphone jack)… I’ve seen (somewhere) instructions to build the interface to an RS-232 plug. something about low signal levels that need to be boosted to be compatible with a PC serial..

Posted at 3:02 pm on May 24th, 2006 by westcoast philly

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