Monthly Archives: February 2010

Serial ports on an iPhone?

Posted on 16 February 2010 by tigoe

hc gilje posted some useful notes on accessing the serial ports of an iPhone. Bottom line: Apple has not made it easy to let the iphone communicate with external devices. Basically, you need a jailbroken phone to do anything. That … Continue reading →

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Using PepperMill to turn a motor into a sensor

Posted on 8 February 2010 by tigoe

Nicolas Villar sent me a sample of the PepperMill, a new sensor board he and Steve Hodges designed at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK.  It’s a nifty little board.  You attach a DC motor and the board can an output … Continue reading →

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