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Re:Raspberry Pi Official Case by crimsonalucard on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @04:36PM (#9728534)
Don't expose GPIO directly. Soldering stuff on it can potentially ruin the phone. Have it be connectible to a breakout board and let that board be hackable.

Also let me connect my phone to a monitor and keyboard and use the thing as my development platform. All in one.

Maybe a modular breakout board connectible to the IO port would be a better startup idea.

I've never programmed for mobile devices but are the operating systems open enough to let it be possible to write a drivers for these things?

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Re:Raspberry Pi Official Case by monocasa on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:31PM (#9728832)
I'm hoping that we'll have that with Ara. It's PCI-E like bus means you could have a GPIO breakout module for dirt cheap.
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Re:Raspberry Pi Official Case by pjc50 on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @05:13AM (#9730713)
modular breakout board connectible to the IO port would be a better startup idea

Android IOIO: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12633

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