Re: Recovering a 'nerase' with a subsequent reset

2010-11-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Niels, as a starter, try this wiki page http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Unbrick Then let's see... No worries, Wolfgang ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe:

Re: reflash_ben.sh

2010-11-15 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Ruben, Today, after maybe 2 months of no use I picked my Ben to listen to some music while shaving and showering (it has a very nice speaker mounted in... and the battery was at 75 after that much time!). After Welcome back also (there was someone else who just reappeared... :-)) that, I

Re: more wallpaper

2010-11-16 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
I would do it when I'm back home with the original image. Which is the exact Ben screen resolution? Also, if someone wants another special screen size not listed in that page, please ask for it! NanoNote resolution is 320x240. Of course it would be great if you would provide it... Wolfgang

Re: Bugs (was: Re: new (testing) image)

2010-11-22 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, thanks for the feedback! - opkg.conf is configured to get packages from the repostiory at: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/software/packages/openwrt/xburst/latest however, all packages in that repository are dated April 2010. maybe they are out-dated by now (shared library

Re: Linux-libre on the NanoNote?

2010-11-22 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
I investigated whether I could hack on MXU extensions support for gas, then saw this and ran for my sanity. Thanks for trying! I didn't know you were on it... Better integrated MXU support would be nice, maybe one day we figure it out :-) Cheers, Wolfgang

Community News 2010-12-01 released

2010-12-01 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
I suggest to read the news including some pictures and links with your browser at http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/News but otherwise here is a short text only summary... * Qi Hardware was assigned IEEE OUI 10-E2-D5 for use in Ethernet MAC addresses and elsewhere. * Qi Hardware USB IDs added to

Re: Using swap, ext4, and the gcc-mips native compiler on the Ben--they all work!

2010-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Fantastic post, thank you so much! Food for thought... Wolfgang ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion

Re: 100% GPL??

2010-12-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, i noticed on the sharism.cc page where I ordered my Ben, there was a badge that said 100% GPL software with a GNU head. Good point. 100% GPL is as inaccurate as 100% copyleft which people pointed out earlier. As you said, sharism.cc is outdated, it's on my todo list to clean it up,

Re: 3d power of Ben?

2010-12-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Llís, But I think it only builds with their toolchain, that involves an 'awk' script that can parse how they wrote the MXU instructions there, as no binutils does not support them. Yes, that's my latest understanding as well. But the infamous assembler (awk script) is still free software,

Re: Cases ? geek stuff ? marketing ! (was: Re: discussion Digest, Vol 11, Issue 19)

2010-12-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, The example I cited, www.ticalc.org works albeit TI calculators not having wlan. All they have is a (serial) link cable to connect to a PC. The app-store analogy is broken, I know, that's why it's called a 'program archive'. Of course, your idea is perfectly fine and ticalc.org a

Re: 3d power of Ben?

2010-12-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Sergey, I've checked the mplayer sources again, there actually are sources for h264, xvid and vc1 plugins. Those live in jzcodecs dir while precompiled .so files are in jzsoc dir. Apparently compiled binaries are provided to make it buildable with standard toolchain without this awk script.

Re: nanonote google statistics :)

2010-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, The problem is, what can one use it for? When I saw the low price, I orderey two of them. Now I didn't even unwrap the second one. Ouch. Thanks for sharing! We have a loyal customer base in Japan and it's depressing to see that a customer who orders 2 NanoNotes doesn't even

Re: Another uclibc compatability problem?

2010-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Xiangfu David, Could you please, please make testing images available, whenever you break software compatability? This is Xiangfu's build location, it may contain what you are looking for, but not 100% sure. http://fidelio.qi-hardware.com/~xiangfu/compile-log/ Wolfgang

Re: Emacs ported to NanoNote

2010-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/david/nanonote/emacs.png Small question: Can I upload this screenshot into the Qi wiki? http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Special:Upload We are trying to make a list of preinstalled applications, and screenshots are very important... Great work, thanks a lot,

Re: Taking NanoNote screenshots

2010-12-13 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/freesvn/trunk/dkbin/nn-fbtopng That's a Tcl script, need to have tclsh in /usr/bin (most people will have it). Great! Will this work for all cases (console, qt, gtk, sdl)? I remember reading that screenshots are not easy to take when using the

Re: new wallpaper

2010-12-15 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, my brother made a new wallpaper. note it is a bit religious, but i think it came out ok Sure, why not? I think it's nice and thanks a lot for sharing... Just be careful that the pictures you use as a base are licensed freely. I didn't check this time, but last time it came from

Re: OpenWrt Image Release: 2010-12-14

2010-12-15 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
I really want to be able to kill gmenu2x so that I can run software that needs more RAM. Top shows gmenu2x to use 6 MB of RAM. Also gmenu2x constantly uses CPU cycles. That's exactly what I thought. Respawn is not good, and 6 MB is too much. I still hope we can find a launcher one day that

Re: [Nanonote] Veni, vidi, bricked it

2010-12-20 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Werner, What surprises me is that the Debian-style bricking appears to kill u-boot itself, which means that one then has to fiddle with the USB I vaguely remember there was a bug somewhere that would let usbboot 'wrap around' the 4096 nand pages sometimes, and then overwrite or erase nand page

Re: how are sales of NanoNote doing?

2010-12-28 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Ron, As 2010 comes to an end, it would be interesting to learn total number of Nanonotes shipped so far. A little less than 1100 Bens in the world :-) Wolfgang ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only):

Re: piwik requires flash

2010-12-30 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, peace in... today I decided to click on the more Piwik statistics. The first surprise was that piwik, whatever that is, requires flash 9 or greater to show a mere graph! First we installed Google Analytics, but as part of our 'Google free' approach we replaced it with Piwik.

Re: text to speech on Ben

2010-12-30 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David and others, I thought about porting Emacspeak to the nanonote. This is designed to make Emacs accassible to blind people, and as Emacs can do about anything you want to do (other than editing, it can open shells, read mail, copy files around etc.), it's pretty limitless. YES! Very

Re: Files to parts / pcb / smt manufacturer

2010-12-31 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Adam, just a heads up - this is an excellent post, thank you so much for taking the time to write it all down and document properly! I am currently working on having the Qi projects server automatically generate some files when KiCad files are being committed, such as: *) schematics electric

Re: text to speech on Ben

2010-12-31 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, yeah, it was flite(not festival) and espeak what I tested, and results doesn't were too good :( I hear you, but that sounds like a good challenge. So let's see! :-) Happy New Year everybody, Wolfgang ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to

Re: Community News 2011-01-01 is out

2011-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Ron, --Carlos' SIE project? (formerly Swiss Army Knife Card) Both David and me are sold out, not sure when they will become available again. -- Werner's XBee 802.15.4 radio for Nanonote matching USB dongle for the PC. (Beta in 2Q 2011?) XBee? It's about 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN. Werner seems

Re: Use strip instead of sstrip (was: Re: More software development on the Ben: static linking works but shared linking fails--still!)

2011-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, AFAICS the only rationale for 'sstrip' is for keeping flash memory usage down. With 2GB of flash available on the NanoNote, maybe we shouldn't be so stingy here? Definitely. Maybe we can measure how much bigger things would get with strip. How about memory consumption? Wolfgang

Re: NanoNote on Windows

2011-01-03 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
There is no way to setup IP forwarding from the NanoNote to the Internet via Windows? ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe:

Re: 2.6.37 kernel for the NanoNote

2011-01-05 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
wow that's great news - thanks a lot. Also the wiki page is very nice! ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe:

Re: mplayer package now _should_ build smartly depending on PATENTED flag

2011-01-08 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
kyak, excellent work, thank you! Your help and advice would be very appreciated (not also removing patented features that might have been left but also enabling patent-free features, like ogg support). As a start this looks about right to me, yes we should definitely enable ogg support in the

Re: Proper graphical GNUplot package

2011-01-08 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, Also would that be a good place for adding config file snippets. E.g. for making Emacs more usable on a smalle display and w/ the nanonote's special keyboard? Can you describe what type of config file snippet you mean? emacs is in openwrt-packages, we can't commit the snippets there?

Re: Speeding up openwrt re-builds with ccache

2011-01-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Nice find! If this is stable, imo we should enable it by default, for both C and C++. Let's see... ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe:

Re: Uses I am making of my Nanonote.

2011-01-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Delbert, (after cataract surgery I have quite sharp near vision with low-power glasses). I was laughing when I read this. Should we add it to the system requirements for NanoNote buyers? 40x80 console font (* requires cataract surgery *) Wolfgang

Re: Flickernoise (Milkymist software) roadmap

2011-01-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
A lot of things are actually working and people are often surprised when they see it running on the M1. I should shoot a video soon. Very true. It's a fully functioning VJ station already, out of the box. - some more info on VJing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VJing We have boards plus

Re: 1-10-11 report

2011-01-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, wonderful report, sorry I'm a bit swamped so I just pick an easy little task now :-) I could not upload .sh's to the Qi-hardware wiki, so gave up that for now. Please try again, it should work now. Nice screenshots, my favorite are the trees... Wolfgang

Re: Nokia BL-6C

2011-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, From looking at http://www.nokiausa.com/find-products/accessories/all-accessories/power/batteries/nokia-battery-bl-6c, it looks like this battery should be compatible with the Nanonote. I will be ordering a batch of them soon and can post on the list of batteries when they work. The

Re: vm overcommit handling

2011-01-15 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, Would be nice to add it in a place that effects config.minimal as well as config.full_system. I want my config.minimal images to be able to run Octave out-of-the-box. Sounds good to me, not sure about the best place to add it, maybe Xiangfu can give us advice. Very well researched

Re: First Production

2011-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, I just see Tuxbrain editing a page as well :-) Such a wonderful work you made there, thanks a lot! I created a wiki page called 'Aewan' for now. Do you use Aewan to play/view these comics? http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Aewan For now I used a simple gallery tag on my page: gallery

Re: First Production

2011-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, I guess why the content menu does not appear as for example in http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Serial_console ? By default the toc (table of contents) will appear if there are at least 4 sections, or something like that. You can force the toc on or off with __NOTOC__ or __FORCETOC__. I

Re: OPENcourseware

2011-01-21 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Ron, For example, making the OpenCourseware available for Nanonote even though it is not licensed sharealike makes sense for those who simply wish to use a Nanonote. It is actually licensed sharealike, but what makes it unusable for a free project is the non-commercial qualifier. Neither

Re: atben/atusb real life signal strength test

2011-01-21 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Ron, PLEASE do NOT let the non-standard early protos of atben/atusb leave Werner's lab. That will only cause you pain and suffering, and SLOW DOWN getting this exciting project shippable. Most likely Werner won't, but the reason is different from yours. We are an open project, that includes

Re: price and power consumption of YA nanonot

2011-01-24 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, first we need to make it to the Ya, that's still a lot of work... a) will the price be the same as for Ben Either the same or lower, with better specs. Otherwise it's not technology in my opinion. b) will it consume more, or less power That one is very hard to answer. Ideally for

Re: internets are acting odd

2011-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
That's because they were down for 8 hours. Oh well, too bad. At least I'm not out of ideas yet how to make them more robust :-) Thanks for the heads up. Wolfgang ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only):

Re: internets are acting odd

2011-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
those mails are only delivered once the server is back up :-) An independent network would be the #qi-hardware irc channel on freenode, so if something is strange, you may want to go there... http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1channels=qi-hardware Wolfgang

Re: Milkymist one now available in Tuxbrain

2011-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
actually I am currently thinking about the label to be put on Milkymist One, my favorite right now is: Milkymist One Made on Earth (ce) (fcc) Maybe some other logos like cc-by-sa, rohs? Attributions are the center of our culture, but I will not take a primus inter pari role simply because I'm

Re: Milkymist one now available in Tuxbrain

2011-01-27 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, here's the first draft of the Milkymist One product label (to be attached to the bottom of the case) http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/wolfgang/tmp/m1-product-label.png Does this work for you? Anything missing? Feedback welcome as always, Wolfgang

Re: NEw Case (jlime inspired)

2011-01-27 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, that's getting seriously good, looking forward to the final pictures. Will you sell those? I may want to order one or two for myself. The hole for headphone is perfect, if only we could detect headphone insertion and removal in software... That's definitely something to add in the future.

Re: Article about Nanonote in german forth magazine

2011-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, got an article about the Nanonote into the magazine Vierte Dimension http://www.forth-ev.de/repos/vd/4d2010-04.pdf Excellent work, thank you very much for the initiative! I added this article (as well as another one that was just published about Milkymist One) to our What others are

Re: NEw Case (jlime inspired)

2011-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, here are the final pictures http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Jlime-case-final-01.jpg Great, I cleaned the background a little and will mention it in the monthly community news. So: Can I order two? If two is too much work, how about one? Maybe pay with PayPal and just ship in a

community news 2011-02-01 is out

2011-02-01 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
We managed again to sum up some of the things that happened with the NanoNote, Milkymist One and other projects, and illustrate the news with nice pictures too... Check it out at http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/News Thanks to the wonderful contributors, I hope there is something you all find

Re: NEw Case (jlime inspired)

2011-02-01 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, If you want it to look exactly like the pictured one, I can do that but the 6th one has some design improvements. No, then I rather wait until the 6th generation is out... The ones you have now are so good already, whatever next complete one you have, I would like to buy one (or two) :-)

Re: Ben NanoNote Applications wiki page

2011-02-01 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Yi, great work! @David - Most of the screenshots are *fake* given that they show a color terminal, although gmenu2x currently disables colors on the first console (fix it by removing the setfont command from /usr/bin/gmenu2x script). This may disappoint quite a number of users (and

Re: Ben NanoNote Applications wiki page

2011-02-01 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Yi, I particularly like how you start to collect contributor information. If you or others don't mind I renamed that to 'Credits:', and will also sit down to try to collect more names there. I feel giving proper credits is one of our core values, especially as we accumulate more and more free

Re: Ben NanoNote Applications wiki page

2011-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, - Some of the screenshots are not default setting screenshots and I do plan to replace them to reflect what the user will actually see with current image. Please think thrice before doing that. B/W screenshots with unreadable font-size may not impress most people. I like the

Re: Ben NanoNote Applications wiki page

2011-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, Which CC license? The non-commercial CC license won't work for the wiki IIRC. Ah true, I assumed it's cc-by or cc-by-sa. I'm pretty sure that's what he meant. Some of those CC licenses are really crazy, just today I ran into the CC Sampling+ license, which allows use of unmodified

Re: battery charge time and tests

2011-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Indeed we don't. A completely empty battery takes about 180 mA; it doesn't matter if it comes from a computer (4,5 V for me, but that's really too low) or a wall charger (4,7 V). Interesting. Is it programmable to draw more, or always just 180mA?

Re: battery charge time and tests

2011-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Werner, So it seems, yes. It's basically a poor man's current splitting, with fixed allocations for battery and system. A more flexible charger chip would draw a constant ~500 mA from USB and send everything the system doesn't need to the battery. Also note that the Ben always tries to

interaction fiction - Curveship running on NanoNote

2011-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Just got exciting news from our NanoNote customer and supporter Nick Montfort. Yesterday he released his interactive fiction system Curveship, and today it's already running on his Ben NanoNote! :-) http://nickm.com/post/2011/02/pocket-curveship/ Curveship is (quoting) an interactive fiction

Re: If the NanoNote were mainstream?

2011-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Mark, I was fascinated by the tiny little Supertwist LCD. Are those types of display still made? 'Cause I've always wanted a little laptop with one of those I don't know, but I doubt it. The supply chains and customizations of a production line are just all gone at some point, and there is no

Re: interaction fiction - Curveship running on NanoNote

2011-02-05 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, Now I am interested in the subject in general and would like to give writing for them a go. I myght even be able to link in my comic art skills too! Hope I did not hijack the post or talk you guys' ears off. Why don't you try to use Curveship then? There are some samples in the

Milkymist One regulation conformity tests

2011-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
I've been far too quiet about Milkymist One, simply because there is so much to talk about/announce and I don't know where to start :-) I have just uploaded the 31 page document about CE/FCC/EMI conformity tests we did in Berlin at http://reichl-emv.de (whom I can very much recommend for copyleft

forgot something

2011-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
forgot the link to the test document... http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Reichl_milkymist_one_tests_11000301.pdf ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe:

Re: Milkymist One regulation conformity tests

2011-02-07 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Can you advertise this on your sharism.cc webshop as well? Right now people are asking me why there is no mention of Milkymist on the Sharism website... Point them to Tuxbrain or Hackable Devices. I will work on cleaning up sharism.cc but it will take time. Can we keep most Milkymist-related

Re: WebM Video Hardware RTLs

2011-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Fully functioning as in working, or as in OpenCores Certified? (sorry I think the model where this worked best 333, not 323) I don't know to which degree it works, and how reusable it is. It just came up when Andrey and me talked, and he mentioned he once spent 6 months to implement an Ogg

Re: Build failure

2011-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Going to try whether make clean/distclean works, but this is going to take some time. Maybe somebody can tell me in the meantime whether that's a known problem? It might well persist. I've had a number of packages fail in my last full build about 2 weeks ago (not this one though). Xiangfu

Ben NanoNote able to control radio power sockets

2011-02-10 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
If you are not subscribed to or reading the Qi planet, Mirko just posted a pretty cool blog entry... http://nanl.de/blog/2011/02/ben-nanonote-able-to-control-radio-power-sockets/ Copyleft hardware planet is here: http://en.qi-hardware.com/planet/ RSS: http://en.qi-hardware.com/planet/rss20.xml

Re: micronokia

2011-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Andres, I have no plan, but market exists. The facts: - Many MeeGo and Maemo users and developers feel abandoned. ... I agree with your sentiments, and I too followed the Nokia decision making process with great interest. However, we don't need to be as short-sighted as some others are. I

Re: [Milkymist-devel] Root cause of high speed problem with the last production batch of jtag pods

2011-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Adam, excellent work and thanks for fixing this bug. As the manufacturer responsible for this mistake, I offer to apply the fix for the (few) jtag-serial boards that are already shipped out by now. Please keep in mind though that the boards carrying this bug work perfectly fine in USB full-speed

Re: wiki file search broken?

2011-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, thanks for reporting! http://en.qi-hardware.com/w/index.php?limit=500ilsearch=gnuplotusername=title=Special%3AListFiles Lists no matches, although multiple images referenced from the Applications page should match. Yes very strange. I played a bit and it seems whenever mediawiki has

Re: ben nanonote boot time compare(kernel in ubifs) (kernel in raw nand)

2011-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Xiangfu, excellent data points! Thanks! This confirms Lars prognosis that putting the Linux kernel inside a large ubifs would be a bad idea. In my opinion that data you collected means that: *) We leave the Linux kernel outside of ubifs for now, in a flat partition. If we want to support

Re: OpenWrt Image Release: testing 2011-02-16

2011-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Xiangfu, fantastic work - congratulations! * boot time needs 10s, shutdown time 1s Wow that looks (over)ambitious. I think boot time 15 seconds would be great, 20 seconds is acceptable. Let's define realistic goals and keep in mind our very limited resources. If boot time is 18 seconds,

Re: OpenWrt Image Release: testing 2011-02-16

2011-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
There are at least 3 web browsers in the image (links, elinks, lynx)? I haven't installed yet, but there may also be w3m and netsurf? I would hesitate to remove any one of them right now because we know so little about how a Ben user would actually use a browser, so leaving them in gives room

complete Milkymist One available for 499 USD

2011-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Hi, I am very happy that I can now offer a much more complete Milkymist One product for 499 USD plus shipping (shipping with Fedex from Taipei). The package includes: *) Milkymist One RC2 board *) high-speed capable jtag-serial daughterboard *) US or EU power adapter (others upon request, such as

Re: ROS as an app in top of Ben could be interesting

2011-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROS_(Robot_Operating_System) http://www.ros.org/wiki/ Wonder how much RAM it )ROS) needs? Has been ported to several *nix systems, but not to OpenWrt. Nice link - I neved heard about ROS before. THANK YOU! It seems it is true free software, sources are BSD

Re: Error on Reflash: can't retrieve XBurst CPU information: -6

2011-02-26 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Booting into hardware USBBOOT mode was exactly the same as booting into software USBBOOT mode. reflash_ben.sh was able to boot the device but not reflash it. On the second attempt usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 appeared in the logs. Can you try this from a different host

Re: your mail

2011-02-27 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jow, thank you so much for your help, it is very appreciated! Wolfgang ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe:

Re: Linux-Tag

2011-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
David, since there quite a lot german participants in Nanonote development, what do you think about the chances that qi-hardware could be present at Linux-Tag 2011 in Berlin? I would be able to be present for 1 or 2 full days. Unfortunately the prject registration deadline is today, Feb

Re: Linux-Tag

2011-03-04 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
BTW, according to http://hackable-devices.org/events/event/linuxtag2011/ John Lejeune from hackable devices is going to be at Linux-Tag. That should mean that NanoNotes and Milkymist One are there as well. ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to

Milkymist One mechanical feedback

2011-03-07 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
roh, (I didn't get a conclusive answer on which list to post this to, so continue cross-posting for now) I recently assembled my Milkymist One case and here's some feedback: ---1 I found a few small things to improve in the assembly documentation at

Re: CPU choice for YA

2011-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, I happened to notice that the new Dingoo A380 handheld game console will use the Ingenic 4755 at 500 mhz. I am pretty sure with its low space tolerance , they are not going to be using a fan. Fan sounds scary indeed, sometimes I forget that some computers still use fans... Maybe we

Re: CPU choice for YA

2011-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Sebastien, Parts of Milkymist SoC that I wrote are launching on a NASA flight to the ISS next January... so I guess it's not that immature, at least for No worries, we'll make it :-) BTW - I have _two_ Milkymist One left - you can always find a reason why to wait, later, when it's more

Re: CPU choice for YA

2011-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
[0] In case you're wondering what's happening to Iris, I've decided to work on projects one at a time now. Iris is not on the top of the list, which means I don't work on it at all currently. However, when it is at the top of the list, I'll be spending a lot of time on it, and it should

nice Milkymist One presentation

2011-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
If you have a few minutes to spare, Yann Sionneau made a nice Milkymist presentation for OSHUG in London (remixed from several presentations by Sebastien, mostly) http://sionneau.net/milkymist_oshug8.pdf Nice introduction to the project, I think. ___

Re: CPU choice for YA

2011-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Bas, That's great news! I want the 4730, so I can make Iris work properly on the Trendtac.[0] :-) It's always best to actually look at something specific. There seems to be no 4730 Programmer's Manual on the FTP right now. It is possible that all relevant 4730 documentation shows up in other

Re: CPU choice for YA

2011-03-10 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
I wonder what the current average price is on that process? You mean price of a 'processor' or price of the 'process' of making ICs? ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or

Re: UBBs

2011-03-10 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
What about using that opportunity to try and use bitcoins? I hope I can sell Milkymist One for bitcoins. Need to learn more about it... roh pointed it out the other day and so far I like it :-) Cheers, Wolfgang ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to

Re: exploring Bitcoin

2011-03-14 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Wolfgang I don't CP large chunks of text for the People who WANT to read the full article(emphasis mine). I could use a short quote and the URL to 'TELL the article TO them', but the large chunks are for the people that want me to 'FEEL the article AT them'. Fine, but if too many people

twitter and identi.ca accounts

2011-03-14 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Hi, we have a few twitter and identi.ca accounts that are more or less dormant: http://identi.ca/group/nanonote (82 members) http://identi.ca/qihardware (153 subscribers, 17 groups) http://twitter.com/qihardware (312 followers, 22 lists) I am a big fan of twitter and identi.ca and facebook and

Re: exploring Bitcoin

2011-03-15 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
How about one sentence? You are a complete idiot. Our community is based on values of utmost respect and friendliness. This is not the first time you have demonstrated pretty much the exact opposite. If you do this one more time, I am afraid you will be testing my abilities as one of the mailing

Re: xburst tools for ARM

2011-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Michael, I don't think anybody ever built an ARM version of xburst-tools. You should try reflash_ben.sh in your virtual machine first, I think all of them support proper USB forwarding nowadays and reflashing should work. Quite a few people reflash their Bens from inside a virtual machine. Hope

Re: google vp8 spec

2011-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jon, thanks for pointing it out. From their site: Q: How can I access the WebM RTL source code? A: WebM RTL source code (VHDL or Verilog) is available at no charge. Please contact us for licensing details. Can you contact them for those licensing details? Can they upload the sources under GPL

Re: exploring Bitcoin

2011-03-17 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
cut many pages of copy/paste, off-topic, spam, slander, etc /cut If the list is going to be kept at immature social cliche atmosphere of a middle school I don't want to to be on it. Ah yes, thank you. That is kindly accepted and I hope you find a forum that is more in line with your interests

Copyleft hardware community newsletter 04/04 is out

2011-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Thanks to everybody who participated in so many ways, we have a wonderful monthly newsletter to share with everyone, which I encourage you all to read... http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Community_news_2011-04-04 There are many good links in there too, for the curious. Cheers, Wolfgang

Re: Jlime impressions

2011-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, thanks for comparing the two in such a well meaning way. Learnt something (again) :-) Wolfgang ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe:

Re: nice Milkymist One presentation

2011-04-08 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
These are totally great! Can I get the sources for them please! they are here: http://sionneau.net/oshug8/ ___ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe:

Re: solar panel hack for Ben

2011-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
My idea is to just buy a solar lawn light and tie the panel into the electric circuits of BEN. What are the issues, and is it worth it? There are a lot of small and large solar panels with a USB cable coming out for power. You can probably use them to charge Ben NanoNote, I always wanted to

Re: nanonote keyboard broke

2011-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, I'm not sure anybody ever tried this, maybe you are the first :-) We can see whether we can mail you a Z key, if we have one somewhere. I didn't even know the keys were removable (they are definitely not meant to be removed imho). Wolfgang ___ Qi

Re: [Milkymist-devel] The Killer (simple) feature of milkymist one for RC3

2011-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jon, thanks for sharing your thoughts! Yes, I fully agree, of course. We talked a bit about making the m1 always go back to whatever it did last, after a power cycle. So if it was running a patch, you unplug the power, replug and boot: It should go back to that patch. If it was running through a

Re: Nanonote video playback update

2011-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
now I can playback fullscreen video 320x176 pixels at 24 fps without jerking. cpu load stays mostly btween 50% and 80%. This looks *very* nice. The Ben's LCD reacts very quickly, seeing no tearing on high motion scenes. Speaker is also load enough to watch movies that usually have lower

Re: Man pages

2011-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
I totally agree that man and info pages would be nice on the Nano, but unfortunately at least in OpenWrt afaik man and info pages are normally stripped out. We will need to spend some time to think about the easiest way to get them back. Maybe Jlime has them?

Re: VP8 working fine

2011-04-24 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Yes, I think we can include VP8 in the whitelisted codecs, for now I'm not aware of credible patent threats against it. Since David was asking for a complete codec whitelist, Dirac also comes to mind, I think ffmpeg supports Dirac so if it's easy to enable, we should enable it.

Re: Rights to include songs on Nanonote

2011-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jane, that's really cool that you try to bring more artists on board. As for including some of my music on the NanoNote, I'm not at all opposed to this. I have chosen a license which prevents unauthorised commercial use specifically to prevent people being sold an album they could get from me

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