I just heard of OpenMoko and Neo FreeRunner today. Awesome! I did see a white one some where that otherwise looks like this, and it was reported as "open". Are they related projects/products?
I just subscribed to these 2 lists and could not "reply" to the thread of interest, but I think this would be best threaded with the following Community topic: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-July/021142.html I found nothing on accelerometers on the Hardware list. For the past two weeks, I was thinking it would be nice to have "Open Hardware" along the same philosophy as Open Source Software. Bear with me, I've been living under a rock. Google (or my search terms) seems better today than two weeks ago when I was thinking "Open Design". I noticed the Hardware Highlights lists "3axis Motion Sensors (2)" and would hope that the developers included 2 accelerometers for the purpose of sampling the rotation as well as translation. The "closedPhone" and "closedPod" only sample translation via their sole accelerometer. So my question is the same as Francesco Cat's. Where exactly are the accelerometers positioned on the device? Would someone please confirm why there are 2 accelerometers? If repositioning of the accelerometers ever comes up, please position them as far apart as possible on the largest (3D) diagonal as possible. On a unit cube (a cube with sides of length 1) positioned at the origin, with sides parallel to the axes respectively; a candidate pair would be located at 0,0,0 and 1,1,1. Unfortunately, the curved geometry of these phones reduce this dimension. Is there no camera? After tracking my stolen phone with 2 accelerometers and GPS, my app will like a nice candid snapshot/video of the culprit. My head is spinning. Somewhere I think I came across an 8GB maximum SD size. Can I not use the largest SD size I can find? Where can I find documentation or APIs? The above thread mentions /dev/input/event3 Is it mentioned somewhere at http://downloads.openmoko.org/ ? Is the DBoard like a physical simulator for the closedPhone? In other words, can I do development with only a Neo FreeRunner? Regards. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
