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iPhone external keyboard without jailbreaking
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Accessories, Hacks, iPhone Check this out, folks. Some enterprising young hackers have got an IR keyboard working with a non-jailbroken iPhone. With nothing more than $20US worth of parts and the iPhone 2.0 SDK, they built an adapter for the headphone port that talks with a modified version of the audio port modem microcontroller firmware. Of course, this isn't a rig that my Aunt Ethel is going to run out and buy for her own iPhone, but it's the first time we've seen an external keyboard working with an intact iPhone. Back in the day, my Stowaway keyboard brought my ...
Hackers Add External IR Keyboard to iPhone Without Jailbreaking [IPhone Hacks]
Gizmodo —
Even though it's still a bit more intensive than plugging in and typing, the tweakers at Perceptive Development have managed to get an external keyboard working via a custom connection built for the headphone jack. It's a progression of their previous project which added an RS232 serial modem interface to the iPhone's headphone jack—a dream of those who've spent most of their life huffing solder fumes. Serial interfaces can be mated to a world of electronics components cheaply and easily, and the headphone jack in/out hardware is one of the few interfaces that's open in the official SDK. Here they've built a microcontroller that converts input ...
iPhone external IR keyboard - no jailbreak required using 2.0 SDK (with video)
MacDailyNews —
iPhone external IR keyboard - no jailbreak required using 2.0 SDK (with video) Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 10:47 AM EDT "We developed this IR keyboard to iPhone adapter using about $20 worth of parts and the official Apple SDK version 2.0. No jailbreaking was required," Perceptive Development reports via YouTube. iPhone external keyboard - no jailbreak required: Direct link to video via YouTube here ...
VIDEO: Keyboard working on Non-Jailbroken iPhone
Apple Gazette —
This video above from TUAW is supposedly from a non-jail broken iPhone. There appears to be a small debate about whether that is actually true or not…but to me, it doesn’t really matter. I’m just glad to see an external keyboard working on the iPhone.
When you combine the features announced for iPhone 3.0, external keyboards, and even 3rd party devices that will turn the iPhone into a full blown “netbook” are going to be coming out from all sorts of people, and I can’t wait to see what companies come up with.
Everyone is excited about the possibility of an Apple ...
iPhone 2.0 keyboard hack, sans jailbreak
The Apple Core —
March 24th, 2009 iPhone 2.0 keyboard hack, sans jailbreak Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 9:03 am Categories: Hack , Hardware , Keyboard , iPhone Tags: Apple iPhone , Keyboards , Hardware , Peripherals , Jason D. O'Grady One of the hottest iPhone stories of the past several months was Ralf Ackermann’s Bluetooth keyboard hack where he connected a standard Apple Bluetooth keyboard to an iPhone. The problem with the Ackermann hack is that it requires you to jailbreak your phone and perform other acts of voodoo most people probably aren’t comfortable with. Engineers Zack Gainsforth and George Dean want ...
iPhone Tweaked (Not Hacked) to Work With External Keyboard
Wired: Gadget Lab —
A major new feature in Apple's upcoming iPhone 3.0 operating system is the ability for applications to communicate with special third-party accessories. But engineers of Perceptive Development have already figured out how to do that with the current OS, getting an infrared keyboard to work with the iPhone. And here's the kicker: They didn't have to Jailbreak the iPhone. They used the iPhone 2.0 SDK.
PerceptDev engineers modified the iPhone's microcontroller firmware used for the audio port modem, expanding it to detect an infrared signal and read from a USB host controller. (Read PerceptDev's post for ...
iPhone keyboard hack uses extreme geekery for heroic means
Macworld —
Posted on by David Dahlquist In what must be one of the most unnecessarily complicated hacks in iPhone history, a couple of brainy engineers at Perceptive Development have devised a way to connect an infrared keyboard to an iPhone using a 1200 baud modem that connects to the iPhone via the headphone port. Yeah, my head almost exploded too. But it makes sense once it's explained—well, kind of. See, while there are several ways to get input into the iPhone (the dock connector, Bluetooth, WiFi), these ports are inaccessible via Apple's 2.0 SDK. The audio port, however, is ideal for simple, low-speed bidirectional communication with cheap components, and it's ...
Hackers Develop Solution to Pair External Keyboard without Hacking iPhone
iPhone Hacks —
Some folks insist that one of the deal breakers of the iPhone is the lack of a physical keyboard while, in my opinion as a long time iPhone user who is used to its virtual keyboard, the need for a physical keyboard is unnecessary. However, I have realized that as user habits change, and they depend more and more on smartphones like the iPhone rather than laptops while they are on the move and start using them for things like writing blog posts, long emails etc then an external keyboard can prove to be quite useful. Stephen from Perceptive Development dropped us a comment on our earlier post about how an iPhone was hacked to make it work with a Bluetooth keyboard ...
I’m Dying to Get My Hands on an iPhone Keyboard! I Think!
Technologizer —
Last week, right before Apple’s iPhone 3.0 unveiling, I compiled a wish list of things I hoped the company would make possible in the new software. One of my items was the ability to connect external hardware accessories to the iPhone–and, specifically, to enable the use of Think Outside-style folding keyboards.
When I attended the event, I ...
Keyboard Works with Non-Jailbroken iPhone
Mac|Life —
iphone The fine folks Perceptive Development has created a system that they hope to bring to the masses that will allow users to connect a keyboard, via infrared to your iPhone. PerceptDev engineers have created a hardware/software solution that say involves electronics that total less than $20. The solution involves a microprocessor emulating a modem that detects an infrared signal or can read from a USB host controller. The signal is converted to FSK for transmission to the iPhone. An iPhone application was then created to decode the FSK signals into text. Check out the video of their hard work below. ...
Tonight, From The Mad Scientist's Club, The No-Jailbreak External iPhone Keyboard
iSmashPhone —
The above, which looks like nothing more than amateur night at your local high school's electronics lab, is in fact one of the iPhone "holy grails" -- an external QWERTY keyboard. Unlike previous attempts, which have relied on serial port access, Perceptive Development engineers Zack Gainsforth and George Dean attacked the problem with an ...
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