CloudFTP SDK Announced

You may remember the Kickstarter project CloudFTP we told you about a few days ago. That’s the plan to build a combination wireless router and battery that can be connected to any USB hard drive to give mobile wireless access to the drive’s data to any device, including iPhones and iPads. The planned selling price is $69. We love the idea so much, Geek Beat is sponsoring it at the $1,000 level. A couple of new reports have come through from Sanho, the company that plans to make the device.

First, it’s passed the 50% funding mark after only 12 days and with 58 more to go before the funding deadline, things look good for this project going forward at the planned price.

Secondly, Sanho has announced an SDK for developers interested in expanding the capabilities of the device. If you’re a developer and would like to play around with this new platform, here’s a look at what’s in the existing Linux kernel and what will be in the SDK:

Kernel Features

Network

Packet socket

Unix domain sockets

TCP/IP network

IP advanced router

Network packet filtering framework

Wireless

cfg80211 wireless configuration API

Wireless extensions sysfs files

Common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers

Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)

Minstrel

Device Drivers

Network Device Support

Ralink RT3070 Wireless device support (Module)

PPP (point-to-point protocol) support

PPP support for async serial ports (to support 3G Wireless USB adapters)

PPP over Ethernet

Multimedia Support

Video For Linux

Video capture adapters

V4L USB devices

USB Video Class (UVC) (to support USB WebCam)

HID Devices

Generic HID support(to support 3G Wireless USB adapters)

USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support

USB Support

USB Printer support (to support USB printers)

USB Wireless Device Management support

USB Mass Storage support

USB Serial Converter support

USB IPWireless (3G UMTS TDD) Driver

USB Motorola Phone modem driver

USB driver for GSM and CDMA modems (to support 3G Wireless USB adapters)

File Systems

Second extended fs support

Ext3 journalling file system support

The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem

FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support (Module, to support NTFS)

ISO 9660 CDROM file system support

UDF file system support

MSDOS fs support

VFAT (Windows-95) fs support

Apple Macintosh file system support

Apple Extended HFS file system support

CIFS support (SMBFS successor)

SDK Features

C Language Software Development Package

Sourcery G++ Lite ARM GCC compiler

Prebuild VirtualBox Ubuntu Image

Sample C source code and binary

Private HTTP Protocol Extension

Manual for extended HTTP protocol

Sample HTML5/JavaScript source code

Sample in SDK

Backup & synchronize USB Storage with box.net

There’s definitely enough there to get some mental gears turning. What would you like to see built into this device?