Excellent. I look forward to blogging about your setup. Please keep me/us informed.
One fun thing to do: send this data to a web server, and plot it (using GPS) on a map showing your current consumption as a function of location? Steven ** wrote: > I'm hoping to use it not just for in-car navigation, but also data > readout. I intend to rig it to display voltage and current in my > electric car. I'd like to see someone do that with an iPhone :-P > > -Steven > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Peter, your email below is the one I've been trying to write for the >> past few months. >> >> Like you, what got me excited about this project was NOT the possibility >> of building better cellphone applications, but rather the possibility of >> creating radically new uses for a general purpose, location aware, >> connected handheld computer. >> >> I'd like a phone that syncs seamlessly with Thunderbird and the rest of >> my Linux workstyle. But what really turns me on is the potential uses >> that I can't even imagine yet. >> >> It is that innovation that I hope to see come out of this community, and >> I hope that in some way I can help make it happen. >> >> Michael >> >> Peter Harrison wrote: >>> I wouldn't focus on the age of the hardware at all. >>> >>> The real question is whether this will be a hardware platform that >>> others will be able to build innovation on top of. With phone companies >>> making available only applications which earn them money you have not >>> really seen the same kind of innovation that we saw in the PC space in >>> the early 90's. >>> >>> It will no doubt be a success in its own right, but what about other >>> ideas... >>> >>> * IP phone over Wifi and integrate with Asterisk IP phone systems - >>> changes to GSM outside the office. >>> * In car navigation system. >>> * Low cost taxi fare system. >>> * Courier driver system that minimizes route time and allows dispatch to >>> communicate. >>> * Robotic platform and robotic control >>> * Hospitals - used by nurses and doctors for prescriptions and >>> observations as low cost tablet. >>> >>> The Neo could open up hundreds of vertical market opportunities that the >>> Telco's currently have no interest in tapping. If you think that the Neo >>> is simply a different kind of iPhone you are missing the point. Many >>> applications may use GPRS, but may not even implement phone >>> functionality. Some may not even use GSM. To me the attraction is that >>> it has been designed from the ground up to run Linux, and there is a >>> dedicated team working on the frameworks that will make delivery of >>> these applications possible. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Openmoko community mailing list >>> community@lists.openmoko.org >>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community