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Android- Ardruino boards

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Hello everyone,

I'm starting a project that would invovle working with an Android phone which can control external components.
To give a short description, the phone would receive commands from a PC (via wifi or 3G), and control a few external motors, LEDs,etc and also receive information (digital or analog) from them.

I'm moderately familiar to both android and arduino programming and electrical hardwares related to these kind of projects. However, while I worked with them individually, this is the first time I'm going to be integrating all three together.

For now, I need some help choosing between:
Arduino Mega ADk board - http://www.adafruit.com/products/563
IOIO Mint - http://www.adafruit.com/products/885

I have never worked with ADK before, so I'm not sure what to expect here. My current requirement is that the board will be sufficient enough to power and host the Android phone (while the board itself will be power by a DC source), the board will receive and send signals initiated from an app in the phone, and the board will be controlling multiple external components (if the board is not enough, power will be seperately provided to the larger components.)

I plan to implement most of the controlling logic from the app in the phone, while the arduino will just relay the commands. But ofcourse some logic could be transfered to the arduino if it seems easier/faster.

Sorry for the long post, I thought it might help!

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