My home made adapter and host mode
 

Here is my home made adapter, took around 15 min to make, USB 2.0.

I am using a Sandisk 1.0GB "Cruzer"

As you can see I had full access to the file system thanks to h-e-m and Titan's Power45 Kernel.

The adapter was salvaged from an old computer that was sitting in my garage. I hope you all enjoy.:D

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items I have found of interest:

http://www.overstock.com/Electronics...tml?cid=123620 / http://www.amazon.com/USB-Micro-Fema.../dp/B0023FTRUO

http://www.usbfirewire.com/uconverters.html

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...x?sku=A3482282

I cannot confirm they work, I just Googled 'em.

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looks amazing!!! :D :D
which cables did you join together which which?
thanks

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very nice
can you tell me how you did that?
which cabled did you connect together ?

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Let me state this first and foremost - this is not a permanent solution, it is fragile and could be disrupted easily by interference. As you can see in the photo I left one of the USB stock almost unmodified (I broke the connector off the end). It came out of a computer from 2002 that I built.

I first got a pair of pliers and crushed the adapter that is normally at the ends of the cables (they plug into your mother board) then I simply stripped down the other rubber , the foil, and the weaving until I got to the 4 wires; red, white, black, and green. I did that to the other end, stripped both, and connected the two and wrapped each up in electrical tape. I then wrapped all the wires together because I did not solder them.

Connected it to my N900 - it worked, now I am in the market for a more permanent solution. So if you have Titan's Power Kernel >44, and h-e-m this is the last thing you need to use host mode on your N900! and we all have TONS of spare USB parts laying around.

10 - 15 min max. 30 if you want it to look pretty.

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If anyone wants to set up shop for this, I'm buying...

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i have made my own female adapter with with spear computer parts i had laying around look some pics of my adapter and the n900 http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1289751142
http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1289751142
http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1289751142
http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1289751142
if any one want to how i made it just pm me i be glad to help out :)

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I did the same as augustthe, it's much more compact and robust.

Always good to have a lot of motherboards laying around :)

This is a clean 2xUSB ready to be soldered/wired:

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okay guys just built my own adapter
looks perfect :D
i tested it on the PC
finally ill get to test the USB Host Mode!!!

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nice it looks good:)

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Here is my adapter. Also modified by me :cool:

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5293/20101114001.jpg

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3650/20101114003.jpg

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9494/20101114004.jpg

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5882/20101114005.jpg

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7070/20101114006.jpg

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some neat stuff in here
haha are you the ones who do their bed up every morning? :D

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Great work! Once I tried to rip two usb-ports on spare motherboard, but it took time and finally I broke something. It was funny but not productive case.

Then I found shop on Helsinki area, which I can suggest. They have webshop and physical shop.

USB-USB = 2,95€
http://www.partco.biz/verkkokauppa/p...ducts_id=10320
(I have used with N810, not yet N900)

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Looks very nice. Imho, you should get a bigger shrink-tube and shrink it over the metal part.

I think many of you saw it, I posted the picture of my adapter in the other thread.

http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1289434348

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My own ... thank you for the ideas :)

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Good way to save $5 or so! I intend on improving my design soon, I just did not feel like breaking out my soldering iron.