Any of you remember the Honda Music Link, Honda's poor attempt at an iPod adapter / control from Honda OEM head units?
Well, I finally got around to working on a project I'm calling the HMLiberator and I thought some of you might be interested in the progress. That up above there is the first
HMLiberator made on a production board, strapped to and cabled to a Honda Music Link.
With this sitting between the iPod and the Honda Music Link the iPod the controls on the iPod remain usable and the audio is cleanly passed through to the head unit.
After some more work on the software I expect it to also allow track control from the steering wheel / head unit, pausing of the iPod when switching away from the CDC input, and a few other things.
Ongoing info about it is being posted
here, including everything one would need to make one themselves; board layouts, schematics, BOM, software, etc. Once I have the project complete I'll have everything posted for anyone to use. All relevant photos (currently work-in-progress images) are in
this album.
Hopefully some of you will find this useful. I know I am... I can't wait for this to be done. (After finishing this I'll probably begin work on a firmware upgrade for the Honda Music Link itself to make it work differently / better without an external adapter.)
-Steve