Easily control your iPod using Arduino

Easily control your iPod with Arduino using serial commands. This instructable includes the schematic, the code and some extra info; everything you need to make this work.

USB,battery or wall power supply powered.

Arduino with iPod

Step 1: What you need

Parts:
5x  1K ohm resistors
2x  1M ohm resistors
1x  12K ohm resistors
1x  1.5K ohm resistors
4x  normaly opened push buttons
wire
protoboard (optional)
3.5mm audio jack

Arduino Uno or similar    http://arduino.cc/
recycled iPod Dock or PodBreakout ( you can buy it here http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8295)

Step 2: Schematic

In the protoboard.
Arduino serial is 5v while iPod logic level is 3.3v. Because of it we need to add a voltage divider.
The two 1M ohm resistors are required to make a 500k to select the device.
The dectect cable is conected to iPod TX pin and use to let the arduino know when an ipod is conected.

Step 3: Code info

Basic comunication protocol. Dont worry, everything is in the code file.

My sources:
http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0026607/ipod_remote/ipod_ap_new.html
http://www.adriangame.co.uk/ipod-acc-pro.html
http://pinouts.ru/Devices/ipod_pinout.shtml

Arduino with iPod circuit

Step 4: Download the program

Here is the arduino code:

/*
By Daniel Solis
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

You are able to modify this code as well as the hardware. If you
have a better code or make any changes that improve the performa
nce please share them

Analog pin 4: ipod TX(to detect ipod)
Analog pin 0: button detection
Digital pin 1: arduino TX
*/

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3.5mm audio jack
Arduino Uno[/box]

 

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