USB Hack: Nexus One Turns Into Full Blown Portable Workstation

Rich Gates June 5, 2010 Networking, Software, USB Hacks, USB News, Video

The love for Linux is that with a bit of tweaking you can do just about anything. Case in point: Sven Killig took the Nexus One, loaded up some code to control the USB host controller and is now running a full work station. Now this sounds awesome. Sven can run a digital camera off his phone, stream video from a USB stick to his screen or even run a printer off the USB port. Check out the screen-shot of his work station…

USB Hack Nexus One

So if you’re like me, this project would be in the advanced level of Instructables for DIY mods, but thanks to Sven’s recording skills, we have a video to tell us how. The best part of all this? Heâ€™s got the whole thing demonstrated for you on video, but not only that, you can hit up the down-loadable binaries from his website. And while he tried all of this on Android 2.2, which means its the only version of Android itâ€™s been successfully tested on (at the moment), Sven believes that it will work on Android 2.1, too.

Source: SlashGear.com.

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Rich Gates

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