On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:22 +0200, René Dudfield wrote:
> I'd be interested to know how the n900 goes. I've only seen one for a
> very brief time... but it looks like something I'd be interested in
> using - so what be interested to know what you think of it.
I've been having lots of fun with mine.
I swapped over to the n900 from a 1st generation iPhone as soon as
it came out (pre-ordered online).
As a phone, it admittedly lacks polish in areas, especially coming
from the Apple experience. However it works well enough for daily
purposes and I have no regrets.
Bottom line, its a Debian ARM box that fits in your pocket, and all
that entails. Put it this way, I jailbroke my iPhone and though it was
cool I could SSH into it. However with the n900 I actually have a reason
to do so, and find it to be a useful tool.
Here's a fun project I've been putting together with pygame on the
n900:
http://brainstorms.puzzlebox.info/
Its lets you build robotic vehicles from LEGO Mindstorms, then steer
them around with you mind, by using an EEG headset from Emotiv. The
n900's camera feed can then be relayed back from the host PC for
"tele-operation" transmitting back a live view from the robot's
perspective. Its geared towards school projects, where kids can build
their robots then race them after training on the headsets.
Pygame is used for the interface, which can also be run straight on
the n900 to drive around using just the touchscreen with no EEG (the
LEGO Mindstorms communicate over Bluetooth). All Open Source of course
(c:
Steve Castellotti
Puzzlebox Limited
