Enable mouse and keyboard functionality on an iPod Touch or an iPhone! [Linux]

Ever wanted to use your iPod Touch or iPhone as a "computer"? Now you can!

You need:
 - a computer with Linux Ubuntu 10.04 [Older versions may very likely work, please tell me if so.]
 - a Jailbroken iPod Touch/iPhone with WiFi enabled
 - Veency from Cydia or Rock (also called Rock Your Phone or Rockapp)
 - Gtk VNC Viewer from the Ubuntu Software Center
 - Internet connection on the computer you are using

[Please note that the mouse isn't that smooth on the iPod/iPhone. It's still very usable though.]

Step 1 Installing Veency

[iPod/iPhone] Installing Veency is quite easy, simply open Cydia or Rock, go to "Search", and type in "vnc". Tap "Veency" and install it. Donating is optional. Veency is free. Once it's installed, respring your device.

The author [saurik] says to run this without drawing the mouse to the iPod/iPhone's screen. You don't have to. He also says to use this with 8-bit color depths. Once again, you don't have to.

This is optional, but if you have SBSettings installed, you can download a toggle for Veency to turn it off or on. Turning it off will usually disconnect the viewer automatically.

Comments

[kyle brinkerhoff]

hmmm one thinks their might be a way to do this with a arduino, after all a couple of those pins on the jack on a ipod are actually a serial port so.....

[ry25920]

Nice find, Don't see a ton of usefulness, but excellent ible never-the-less. 4 stars

[nadav]

 You don't need linux.. all you need is a VNC Client. (Chicken of the VNC is a good one for MAC OS X)

[TheBlackParrot]

This was just an instructable on how-to do it in Ubuntu, which is why you needed Ubuntu.