I too would be interested in the source for this project. I intend to use an arduino board in a project of my own.
-Steven On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Sparrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy Flemming, > > Neat idea's about the FR and custom hardware. I currently have an > arduino project that works great with the Freerunner, connecting both > via blue tooth and via usb. The arduino is used to control a custom > irrigation solution I build on my roof using earth boxs, and the sends > the data back to the FR for alerting and monitoring. If you have not > checked out the arduino micro controller, take a peek > (http://www.arduino.cc/) . > > Best regards, > Steven O'Reilly > > On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 01:36 +0200, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: >> Today, I read [1]. I also read [2], and it is basically the reasons >> there that made me buy the Freerunner some weeks ago (look >> at the question part). That, and that it is a cool device to hack >> on! (Anyway, the iPhone is big, ugly and with a low res. screen:p) >> >> The Freerunner is doing very well, being recommended by FSF, >> OSM, etc, and got a lot of publicity slashdot, linuxdevices.net >> and many other places. >> >> Also it is very nice to use as a phone. I use it as my primary >> phone, with OM2007.2. As soon as I get some time, I will try >> to write some code for it too. There are a few issues, but if >> there where nothing to fix, the phone would not be of any >> interest to me. In stead of seeing limitations, one should see >> potential:) That is the beauty of free software :D >> >> One simple way to make custom hardware, is to add >> something to the USB port, since the USB_ID pin is >> connected to an ADC. I bought a lot of 5 pin mini USB >> plugs, and inside one, you can actually fit a complete >> mini circuit. >> >> I have one that works as a flash light, and one for measuring >> humidity. I plan to put the sensor inside, once I have written >> some code that actually works. >> >> I also ordered a small camera, so I will try to see if it works >> "out of the box" or if some code needs to be rewritten. >> >> The camera I bought does not have the correct electrical >> interface, so I need to make an adapter (USB or BT). It is a >> wireless cam, which I will mount on my radio car:) I will add >> some hardware and make a simple GTK app, so I can control >> the car from my phone (and see the output from the cam). I >> hope I ever get the time to do this. >> >> [1] >> http://digg.com/linux_unix/5_Questions_Give_Apple_the_iPhone_Challenge_2 >> [2] >> http://static.fsf.org/dbd/iphone-action-handout.pdf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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