Combining your project with other hardware

Now that you have considered how to best modify the software side of your Android system to fully integrate your custom hardware project, let's look at the hardware side of things. Breadboards do a great job of allowing you to rapidly create and change your hardware project designs. Hardware and software co-design is an iterative process, so you might find yourself changing your hardware designs as you develop interfacing software. However, carrying around a breadboard to show off your hardware projects is far from ideal.

Constructing your own prototype capes

Why not create your own custom cape board project? If you have developed the perfect hardware project for your Android system, you should consider making it a stand-alone cape board. Putting your project into a cape form factor makes it easy to integrate it with other cape boards. It also allows you to move your project from place to place without worrying about disturbing the circuit or accidentally...