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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.

Posted in Cellphone Hacks, iphone hacks

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