A USB host shield for the Arduino is needed to connect to an Android hand set. You’ll be able to send and receive strings via the terminal, with support for carriage return and life feed characters.

Since Linear Tech is also a power supply chip company, they beefed up the power supply on the board, using a switching regulator to replace the linear regulator on the Arduino. This means you can get ...

The idea early on was to leverage existing Arduino libraries to connect with a standard USB mouse, specifically, the hardware would take the form of an Arduino Mega 2560 with a USB Host Shield.

This is a FT2232H based JTAG programmer shield that is compatible with OpenOCD and Broadcom’s WICED IDE. The FT2232 chip is setup to provide an USB-JTAG and USB-UART interface simultaneously.