Sparrow, I'm very interested in details of your Arduino hookup. Can you please wikify this information?
I too have Arduino plans and think the pairing with the FR allows easy prototyping of pretty arbitrary hardware. Please start a wiki page for Arduino projects! Thanks, Michael Steven ** wrote: > 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 >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
