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Day: December 11, 2007

IPhone Serial Access Tutorial

December 11, 2007 by Will O'Brien 17 Comments


[TheRain] sent in his tutorial on using the iPhone’s serial port. Apparently there’s a hardware trick required to enable two way communication. Whatever device is attached to the iPhone needs a secret handshake to get things talking both ways. Once the serial ground has been strobed high to low in the proper order, things will work like normal.

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