Codemonkeys exhibiting the kindness of strangers? Why, yes, this is such a tale. When
XDA Developers member verygreen came across the pleas of one user obsessed with attaching an external USB keyboard to an
eReader, he did what any decent hacker would and created a workable solution. Using a loaned
Nook Simple Touch, this self-styled Make-A-
Wish Hack was able to patch Barnes & Noble's existing kernel, which already supported USB host mode, and send commands over ADB to enable the connection. It's not a foolproof workaround, though, as only low-power devices will function without additional juice and even so, at a great cost to the greyscale device's battery life. Sure, this may not excite
you much, but it's certainly made for one very satisfied forum dweller out there in cyberland. After all, isn't that what haxxors are for?
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