DIY More USB ports for Ouya.

[jimlab7]

so does anyone now if i could use this?
and if so how to hook it up?

UPDATE:
i tried this and hooked a usb fan which worked great but it would not read my usb power hdd it would blink in the usb hub hookups would light up in the orignal usb but still wouldnt read not til i cut the wires did it work

[average_male]

so does anyone now if i could use this?
and if so how to hook it up?

UPDATE:
i tried this and hooked a usb fan which worked great but it would not read my usb power hdd it would blink in the usb hub hookups would light up in the orignal usb but still wouldnt read not til i cut the wires did it work

It seems that those solder points noted by the OP are tied to the external USB ports on the board and when you tied into these solder points for your fan you effectively put two USB devices on one USB port (endpoint). I bet if you connected your USB hard drive to the non-micro USB port via a micro-to-non-micro-USB adapter then your hard drive will work.

I see other soldering points under the non-micro USB connector, wondering if that has the same setup as the one under micro USB connector.

Like to get confirmation on the above, having multiple (more than three in this case) USB ports would be very cool, but it seems these are just soldering points to existing USB ports.

[Jared Landry]

*squints* what usb hub did you use? (op)

~btw to jimlab7 I'm just guessing but black might be your ground, just solder that to the mb grounding areas? (like the shielding)
depends on the hdd sometimes though... might need a grounded hot or straight ground or just plain driver?

[rhester72]

If his USB drive is unpowered, the "tap" for the fan might have drained the available 500mA available to the ports, leaving enough to spin and (sometimes) read the drive but not write it. Ran into this a few times myself on an unpowered hub.

Rodney