mbed talks to Android via ADK Open Accessory API!
Simon Ford.
Google announced that Android 3.1 added "Android Open Accessory" support and the ADK, allowing external USB hardware to interact with an Android-powered device.
Because mbed has a USB Host interface built in already, that means it can theoretically be used to prototype Android Open Accessories. And it looks like some of you are already making great progress! Check this out:
This video was made by 
makoto abe and is found on his notebook page (currently in Japanese!)
Looks like there could be some interesting projects ahead!
There is also a video for the Google IO session itself, where this was announced:
For all the details, see:
6 comments on mbed talks to Android via ADK Open Accessory API!:
ceri clatworthy wrote:
Where do I get the phone APP from?
I have looked around but nothing :(
Cheers Ceri
The app shown in the example is the standard ADK demo app as shown in the Google video, you can download it http://accessories.android.com . The Google reference board has RGB LEDs, which is why there are multi-colored sliders - in the example by makato abe all three sliders just control the intensity of the blue LED, instead of separate colors.
Still very exciting! now off to figure out how to upgrade my phone so I can play with it...
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The Google - Android platform ls going to be truly massive. Looking at the videos today, there is going to be an explosion in consumer tech.
Especially as the other platform has such closed ranks !!!!!!!
How about an MBED - GOOGLE - ANDROID platform,
After all if microchip can sell a development kit for $80 / £50 The combined power of this MBED community could blow them out of the water.
I hope there are a few people out there to get the rest of us up and running.
Great work comes from collaboration.