Connecting Phones to Physical Hardware - Arduino Connected to G1 Andriod Phone

"Hello World" prototype exploring how we can connect our mobile phones to embedded physical devices.

By pressing a button on the phone we can now trigger any events in a nearby micro-controller board. This first prototype turns on a blinking LED. Prototype uses an Arduino board with a bluetooth module (Blue Smirf) and a Andriod G1 phone with Andriod app called "Amarino" written by Bonifaz . Amarino is a great bit of on-going research at the MIT Media "High-Low Tech" Lab.

What would you want to control or monitor with your mobile phone ?

send me an email at joel at zeenlabs dot com.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• zeen labs
• zeenlabs
• amarnio
• arduino
• android
• digital physical prototyping

[scp443]

thanks for the great explanation

[LennaTheMaster]

Yo, i'm trying to do the same thing with an arduino bt, and a rooted htc aria, but the test program won't work. Did you have to do anything special to get amarino to work just for the arduino bt? (besides setting the baud rate to 115200 of course)

[Zaim13]

Hi i am doing a project involving a ardunio mega + bluetooth module to send a msg to a phone. Can ya give me a sample program of how to interface this together. I am a great fan of your project. Your help will be much appreciated.

[Shanjaq]

Hey, isn't the G1 locked to Android 1.6 SDK, which DOES NOT include bluetooth API? Or did you root the phone?

[dodgedart74]

very fuckin nice man, nice and quit, simple and to the point, cant wait to get my arduino, its not a bluetooth but it'll work

i want to see EVERYTHING you experioment with,