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Controlling Linux Using an Android Phone As Mouse, Keyboard, and Gamepad

Posted by timothy on from the purely-awesome dept.

beefsack writes "Miniand have demonstrated how to control Linux using a Samsung Galaxy S2. Using an MK802 with the ARM build of Droidmote server bundled into an MK802 Lubuntu image with uinput enabled, Miniand demonstrates (video) using an Android phone as a keyboard, mouse, and gamepad over Wi-Fi to the device." Update: 07/10 00:07 GMT by U L : reader ancienthart pointed toward Premotedroid, an (possibly, I could find no license in the code but the code is there) open source alternative.

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  1. Open source alternative by ancienthart · · Score: 4, Informative

    Premotedroid does this for (android) mouse and keyboard already. It's open source, works using bluetooth or wifi, and on any computer with java.

  2. Re:Amazing by gman003 · · Score: 3, Informative

    with a trip to radio shack a child could whip up a fart chair to signal keyboard input to any OS they choose for under 40 bucks.

    I take it you haven't been to Radio Shack lately. The big shelf of resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors and such? Gone, along with any employees that even remember it existed.

    I don't think they even have radios anymore. Just overpriced cables and cell phones.

  3. Re:Rube-goldberg by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um, it would work on a desktop with wired ethernet too... It's only the phone which would need to use wifi...

  4. Re:Rube-goldberg by KClaisse · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its not the desktop that needs the wifi its the android device. The android phone connects to the local network through wifi, presumably the same network that the desktop PC is located on.