My co-worker asked me to do some soldering for him.\u00a0 He had a micro USB cable that he wanted to convert to an OTG cable.\u00a0 I didn’t know what an OTG cable was, but he told me that all I had to do was connect the pin five to ground on the micro USB connector.<\/p>\n
i decided that I had to do some research on this, so I googled OTG cable and came up with a Wikipedia article.\u00a0 It said that normally the micro USB device is a slave; it acts like a storage device, not a computer.\u00a0 So grounding the pin 5 tells it to act as the host or computer, so you can plug other storage devices or a keyboard or a mouse into it.\u00a0 That’s pretty cool, you can add a second flash drive, for instance.\u00a0 Or connect it to a USB hub, and do multiple devices. BTW, OTG means On The Go.<\/p>\n
I started working on the cable about quitting time, and managed to get the jacket removed and see some of the wires.\u00a0 But there were only four wires in the cable, there was no fifth wire.\u00a0 So I cut away part of the connector itself, until I got to the bare copper shield that covered the whole connector.\u00a0 I told him that I would try again tomorrow, but he said that\u00a0 he would try to find it.<\/p>\n
I came back the next day and he had cut away all of the plastic around the connector and the wires were bare.\u00a0 So I soldered the pin 5 to ground and did some repairs to the cable to make it serviceable.\u00a0 He plugged a mouse into the cable and the cable into his tablet, and it worked.\u00a0 Cool!\u00a0 So I said I gotta get me one of those.<\/p>\n
I looked on Amazon and eBay, and they wanted anywhere from 7 dollars to more than ten dollars for a single OTG cable.\u00a0 I figured I could find it cheaper.\u00a0 I found that Dealextreme.com was selling them for a dollar sixty apiece so I ordered several and the shipping was free.\u00a0 In a few weeks I’ll have them arrive in the mail.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll be able to get my cell phone to allow a flash drive to be plugged in.\u00a0 Then I can download those pictures into the flash drive.\u00a0 Cool!<\/p>\n
Back to experimenting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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