love the smell of an arduino :)

Posted at 4:40 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by monkeyslayer56

Kinda takes the portability out of the iPhone, dontcha think?

Posted at 4:58 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by andrew

just needs one of those roll-up keyboards. besides, with the level of man purses out there (re: back-packs) you can always carry a few more items.

Posted at 5:36 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by sly

Sweet, this is something I’ve been looking to make myself, and it looks like the only thing I’ll need to buy is the ipod connector breakout. I’m off to sparkfun ^_^

Posted at 6:04 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by tripp

Does the iPhone seriously not support Bluetooth HID? Even my garbage dumbphone from Verizon supports BT keyboards.

Posted at 6:12 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by MS3FGX

okay, now /this/ is an appropriate use for an arduino

well done

Posted at 7:01 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by nave.notnilc

A refined solution would be a very small PCB with a UART IC solution or whatever(I don’t know the specs) that is very low profile. You could probably use a much smaller cell too, something with maybe 5v and 2kmah+.

Thanks adruino for another hack.

Posted at 7:11 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by tj

Is such an easy solution possible for a BlackBerry instead of buying their proprietary keyboards?

Posted at 7:40 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by darksim905

Get a mini keyboard and shoehorn the battery and a Arduino Mini or Nano in it and you’re portable again.

Posted at 9:17 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by mj

I was hoping this was more info on the bluetooth keyboard iphone hack: http://www.ubiqkom.org/blog/?cat=9

Posted at 10:25 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by cptfalcon

haha all this when there is this: http://www.ubiqkom.org/blog/?p=51 good catch cptfalcon!

Posted at 10:49 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by RHF

I did a little more sleuthing and found some code towards iphone/ipod bluetooth keyboards:
http://code.google.com/p/btstack/
http://code.google.com/p/ibluetoothproject/

I just I wish I had some time to hack on this. ibluetoothproject looks like more of a hack, while btstack looks more robust – or at least intends to be :) With the ipod portability / battery life, it makes an attractive portable computing system with a keyboard. You could get a full 80 width terminal in there with 6 pixels per character.

Posted at 11:04 pm on Oct 14th, 2009 by cptfalcon

…for those waiting for Bluetooth HID, there will be a first release of the BTstack for iPhone soon, and a (beta?) Bluetooth iPhone HID driver in less than a months time.

Posted at 1:23 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by Matthias Ringwald

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=iphone+keyboard&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=

??

Posted at 1:58 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by RazorConcepts

I want this for my G1.
why?
because I want to map the keyboard in an car-motive controller for using it while i drive…

Posted at 3:08 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by emuboy

The iPhone is closed source. Why any serious hacker would want it is beyond me.

Posted at 3:53 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by Hackius

wowow this is grate NEWS

Posted at 4:14 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by iphone applications

How is this a hack? Sorry, I thought it was tradition to say that to every post on this blog.

Posted at 5:07 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by Beavis

@Beavis
only since the great influx of idiots

Posted at 6:11 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by nave.notnilc

@mj: Yep, shouldn’t be too hard to remove the ATMega from its arduino board and place it onto its own board along with the Sparkfun iPhone interface board, then shove it all inside the body of the keyboard.

Posted at 7:02 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by jeff-o

It doesn’t look pretty, or portable, but it works (and documented nicely). It’s up to you to make a custom PCB and make it all-in-one and smaller.

Posted at 7:07 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by Mike

Heres an arduino use we can all agree is good

http://imagebin.org/67911

Posted at 8:03 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by Laurencium

Why not just use one of those tiny bluetooth keyboards?

Oh wait… Nevermind.

Posted at 8:25 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by Arkenklo

@Laurencium Needs an upgrade to the Atmel 328 ‘DD’ if you ask me

Posted at 9:10 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by mj

@Hackius: closed source can be part of the fun, if you enjoy RE :)

Posted at 11:23 am on Oct 15th, 2009 by cptfalcon

Well I can’t really use a bluetooth keyboard in my case since I have a first gen itouch, which lacks bluetooth >.<

Posted at 6:39 pm on Oct 15th, 2009 by tripp

Have a look at Atmel’s appnote AVR313: Interfacing the PC AT Keyboard.

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/DOC1235.PDF

This was published in 2002 and includes full C source code for an AT keyboard-to-serial interface. Integrating an AVR and mini-din socket within the space of an iPhone connector shell is an exercise for the astute reader. It shouldn’t be too hard.

When all you have is an Arduino, the solution to every problem is doomed to be a $30+ rat’s nest.

For those of you interested in implementing this at home, there may be a better solution than either the Arduino or the bare AVR. Most PDAs manufactured in the past 10 years had various aftermarket keyboards available; you can find them for pocket change on the used market since the PDAs are obsolete. Most of these keyboards (Palm Pilot, Compaq IPAQ) use a simple serial interface which should connect directly to the iPhone’s serial lines. Here’s one guy’s project to get you started:

http://www.splorp.com/newton/stowaway/

Better jump on it before Apple releases Bluetooth HID and takes all the fun out of the hack.

Posted at 7:47 pm on Oct 15th, 2009 by reboots

Seems like a lot of hard work went into this project. I hacked together a keyboard using the same VNC method last year, but the wiring was much simpler.

Posted at 9:38 am on Oct 18th, 2009 by Mike

It’s amazing. Now iphone users can also use the keyboard. But i wanna know that is this keyboard is portable?

Posted at 5:16 am on Oct 19th, 2009 by Facebook App Developers