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Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« on: April 16, 2010, 08:01:18 pm »
if you look at the Nspire's specs, as well as the USB cable, you can see that it has an OTG port. This port allows for the Device to be a host or be controlled by another host.

Example of usage:
As slave: Hooked to PC
As Host: Hooked to USB Mass Storage device, keyboard, mouse, etc.

In my mind, this presents great possibilities. Did ti make it impossible to use in that way?
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2010, 08:05:12 pm »
What does OTG stands for?
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2010, 08:56:23 pm »
On the Go. It simply means that that particular port can act as host or slave. It's common for phones, so they can have usb mikes and still hook to a pc.

If you look at an nspire link cable, one of the slots is different from the other. that is because it is telling the port to go to host mode.
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2010, 09:21:31 pm »
Aaah I see, I guess it could be something developers should check into when they are less busy with Ndless 2.0
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2010, 12:11:39 am »
USB Host on the Nspire would be a dream! Wishful thinking, but can someone say mini wifi adaptor for network games/minimal web browsing?
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2010, 01:11:02 am »
Such projects have been started for the 84+ series. E.g. a USB MSD driver was written, and Brandon started his Wifi8x project a few years ago (but no visible progress so far... I think it's dead). It should be possible to do this on the NSpire, but I can't be sure, of course.
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2010, 10:39:57 am »
I bet on the Nspire we could actually support FAT32 formatting instead of just FAT16 :P
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2010, 10:58:31 am »
Maybe! I was thinking USB keyboard with an asm hacked os so it acted like the TI-keyboard.

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Don't feel so down! A text based web browser might be possible, and wifi open source drivers are readily available from the linux kernel for porting. No image support would be probable, but it might work for forum sites and news feeds!
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2010, 12:42:40 pm »
Mhmm mouse support would have been cool, for strategy games or for moving the cursor around in the Nspire OS, but again now the new Nspires got a touchpad so it may have a lower and lower audience
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2010, 12:57:32 pm »
I still maintain I want a qwerty keyboard. I don't care if I have to take it out for the act.

Honestly, the touchpad thing doesn't look that wonderful. It looks like an old laptop mousepad, and I hated those things. I much prefer the Blue version. I had no Idea it could do more than 4 directions. How many directions does it go?
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2010, 01:07:01 pm »
I think the blue one can do 16 directions. As for touchpad I agree. When I am at my mom's house and use her laptop to show her stuff, it's friggin annoying since I always accidentally click on stuff then everything freaks out
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2010, 01:27:05 pm »
Yeah, I don't like tap-to-click, so I have it turned off on my laptop. But the Nspire doesn't have tap-to-click so I think I would be quite fine with it. Also, the touchpad has all the letter keys together which I think could be nice for typing
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2010, 01:56:39 pm »
true I liked this. On the other Nspire I always accidentally press other keys near the letters when typing x.x
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2010, 12:37:07 am »
I might consider getting the keypad later, but I'll probably stick with the old one. more games call for D-Pads than mice, and cursors with pads are a pain to use, even if there is no tap to click.
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Re: Use of OTG on the nspire possible?
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2010, 02:13:37 pm »
This is another excellent point on the NSpire!  I think this could be exploited to do pretty cool things.

Thanks for mentioning this! ;D
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