Friday, December 30, 2011

Android ADK Development Boards

Developers using Google's Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK) now have more choices of hardware.  Initially the ADK supported the Arduino Mega2560 ($65 assembed from Adafruit) with Oleg Mazurov's USB Host Shield ($25).

Here is the current list from the Android Developers ADK page.

Arduino Mega ADK - available from the Arduino Store and Radio Shack $84.99


DIY Drones PhoneDrone Board for Android $99



mbed has a few solutions...



Microchip - Two boards are available, the PIC32 DM320412 (not yet for sale actually), and the PIC24 DM240415 $79.



Modern Device's Freeduino USB Host Board $79



RT Corp - RT-ADK&RT-ADS $389.03 (31,500 Yen)


Seeed Studio Seeeduino ADK Main Board $79



Sparkfun IOIO for Android (beta support) $49