Mar 24
PerceptDev engineers Zack Gainsforth and George Dean developed a hardware and software solution that allows infrared keyboards to be used for typing on the iPhone, using less than $20 of electronics. Check out the video after the break.
Zack used a Cypress PSoC microcontroller to emulate a simple modem, and then expanded it to detect an infrared signal or read from a USB host controller, which converts this signal to FSK for transmission to an iPhone.
George then created an iPhone application to decode the FSK signals to interpret the keyboard data and display the appropriate characters on-screen.
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but, at least on 2.2.1, this method would never work with apples default apps.
WAY TO GO! Yes, there is some way to go yet, but way to hack! Hello world, indeed!