My thoughts exactly Yorick. I'd be very interested in this (I guess I should be! ;-) at the sort of prices Marcus was talking about.
What's the technical investment required for this? I guess I should go google "psp screen linux"... Cheers, Joseph 2009/4/15 Yorick Moko <[email protected]>: > I'm not actually interested, > but while you are modding: you could maybe also try to get a bigger > battery in there? > or two batteries in parallel? > might be usefull for longer trips... > > y > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Marcus Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> Joseph Reeves wrote on his blog about a bicycle app for the Neo [1]. >> >> I have always wanted to add cycling / sports functions to tangoGPS but >> as the LCD is mostly unreadable in sunlight I felt there is little use. >> After trying it a couple of times on my bike I soon started to leave >> the Neo at home. >> >> So I wonder about three things for better outdoor use: >> >> 1) How many of you would be interested in the following hardware >> mods: >> * sunlight readable LCD >> * bigger LCD 3,5"+ >> * new ruggedized case or rubber shell (including a mean to nicely fix >> in on a bike?) >> * waterproof (substaintially more costs) >> >> 2) How much money would you spend on it? To give you an idea: the PSP >> display with touchscreen can be bought on ebay for ~25$. A case may be >> ~20-30$ for volumes of 100+. >> >> 3) Last question: are there hardware people interested in >> this? >> >> Please reply here on list with your interest! >> >> Marcus >> >> [1]http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/racing_myself_a_feature_request >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
