Am 02.05.2010 um 16:09 schrieb Kosa: > Christoph Mair escribió: >> Dear community, >> >> we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved >> Freerunner: a >> navigation board! > > That's amazing! Great work! would you mind to share why did you > developed it? I know it will help and will be used by several > project, > but what's yours? > > As you also developed this > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/I2C_Pressure_Sensor I certanly think the > Neo is going somewhere in the outer space :p
Good idea! "free running" into space. Talking to aliens certainly needs open source hard- and software since they have to understand the protocols first :) But seriously, one Freerunner did go to (inner) space on a research rocket (altitude was approx. 100 km): http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1430&p=14569&hilit=dlr#p14569 I don't know exactly why Christoph & Michele developed this, but I can imagine some areas (who finds other ones?) what that these sensors could be used for. You develop new user interfaces (3D gaming :) and generally improve portable navigation. For car navigation, GPS is in most cases sufficient since a car goes fast enough so that GPS can tell about the direction of movement. But if you have a handheld device, only a compass and/or gyroscope can tell that you are rotating the device. While the LIS302 accelerometers can detect that you shake the device. This gives several new inputs for gesture recognition. The arena is open for creativity... And, I think one can use the pressure sensor either as a weather station (during hiking or skiing) - or to get the altitude and detect ascent/descent better than with GPS. I think all these fine things can augment and integrate with the GPS system. Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
