IPhone Accessory Development

8 points by tritchey 17 years ago | 7 comments

I am working on a new accessory for the iPhone/iPod Touch. It is an Ethernet adapter that plugs into the dock connector, along with software that allows you to do network analysis from your phone.

This is a bit of a departure for me from pure software, so I'm still learning as I go. If this is of interest to you, I've set up a short survey on surveymonkey to collect information about features, pricing, etc. I would really appreciate any feedback. http://bit.ly/1radd

brk 17 years ago |

Sounds curious. How do you plan to take 100 or 1000Mbits of data and stuff that down a serial pipe and then analyze in software?

tritchey 17 years ago | |

There are a couple things we are looking at, but it basically boils down to filtering/buffering as much in the hardware adapter before shifting it to the phone on demand. Realistically, the product won't be able to do full line-speed Gbit dumps for extended periods of time, but for simple network scanning/troubleshooting, hopefully it will be adequate.

Timothee 17 years ago |

Q10's answers need to be rephrased: 10. Do you mind if we contact you in the future regarding this product? Under no circumstances will we give out your email.

No, you've wasted enough of my time.

Yes (please provide us with an email address)

"Yes" means that I do mind, so I don't want to give you my email address.

tritchey 17 years ago | |

I'm starting to wonder in how many ways I can screw up a 10 question survey. Thanks for the feedback. I had 5 other people proofread the survey and you are the only one to catch that.

groeling 17 years ago |

Looks interesting. Could the connection be used for other purposes, like sending print jobs or file serving off the phone? Or would the speed just be comparable to the current wireless connection?

rendezvouscp 17 years ago |

You set up number five incorrectly; let us know when you fix it!

tritchey 17 years ago | |

Sorry about that - This is the first time I've used Survey Monkey. It should be fixed now. Thank you for letting me know.