Re: USB Host & PDA

On 22 Apr 2005 02:46:59 -0700, "juky" <juklingos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I have a PDA Ipaq 4150 and I want to connect to an external homemade
>device which has USB interface. It seems that my PDA does not support
>USB host. Is there any trick to work around this problem ? I need to
>write an application for pocket pc 2003 that control my device by
>sending/receiving some bytes.
>

The "simple" solution of course is to turn things around. Put the host
in your device, and treat the PDA as a slave. Using some other comms
channel probably would be easier.

Anton Erasmus




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