Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Tilman Baumann

Ben Wilson wrote:

Hey Nick,

I've not looked at the electronics inside the neo myself but the sound
is typical in the electronics world of a switchmode power supply under 
grate strain.


The reason is a bit more banal. (AFAIK)
The scream has just the frequency how much the main cpu can boot and 
detect that there is no battery and reset. (something like that)
Probably not a good thing for the components, but not a result of any 
stress to the power drivers.

But maybe it results in stress for them...

Don't know. Better avoid it. :)

Regards
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Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-04 Thread Tilman Baumann

joerg wrote:

Am Mo  3. März 2008 schrieb Tilman Baumann:

David Samblas Martinez wrote:

22. Digital level 
Is any side of the phone straigh enough to be able to 
develop such a freaking geek widget?

I could be a funny exercice to play with the
accelerometers.


Sure, at least backside.


No camera, no point. ;)

  Tilman


???


I assumed that this would use the camera and overlay some horizontal 
bars or something like that on the live picture to help to level something.
But i realise that you could also simulate a water level on the screen 
and hold the device with it's side onto something.

Sometimes i think a bit complicated...

 Tilman

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Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-04 Thread Thufir
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:23:07 +0100, kenneth marken wrote:


 heh, i suspect that many of those are in the works or will show up as
 the openmoko phones start to spread out. some of those can even be done
 by ports of existing software, like pidgin for im support of any kind.


Now *that* is a cool idea :)



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Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread joerg
Am Di  4. März 2008 schrieb Tilman Baumann:
 Ben Wilson wrote:
  Hey Nick,
  
  I've not looked at the electronics inside the neo myself but the sound
  is typical in the electronics world of a switchmode power supply under 
  grate strain.
 
 The reason is a bit more banal. (AFAIK)
 The scream has just the frequency how much the main cpu can boot and 
 detect that there is no battery and reset. (something like that)
 Probably not a good thing for the components, but not a result of any 
 stress to the power drivers.

My idea: 50606 PMU is switching rapidly between BATT_VERY_LOW and BAT_OVERVOLT 
state, and btw powers on and of the whole NEO hw. Not verified.

 But maybe it results in stress for them...
 
 Don't know. Better avoid it. :)

agree.

j

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Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Ben Wilson

Yeah, without knowing how the power system is done i dunno either.

It could be the charging circuit going to max output to try and raise 
the battery volts above the min level, (which of course it can't). 
Whatever the cause, the scream is definitely coming from a coil or 
inductor vibrating due to the attraction/repulsion between its own 
magnetic field and the earth's. But which coil/inductor and what's 
causing it to go into this state i dunno.


Ben.


Tilman Baumann wrote:

Ben Wilson wrote:

Hey Nick,

I've not looked at the electronics inside the neo myself but the sound
is typical in the electronics world of a switchmode power supply 
under grate strain.


The reason is a bit more banal. (AFAIK)
The scream has just the frequency how much the main cpu can boot and 
detect that there is no battery and reset. (something like that)
Probably not a good thing for the components, but not a result of any 
stress to the power drivers.

But maybe it results in stress for them...

Don't know. Better avoid it. :)

Regards
 Tilman Baumann

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Any experience with this BT keyboard?

2008-03-04 Thread David Samblas Martinez
I was dreaming/whishing/fantasizing about owning a
Freerunner and I finally decide that for a lot of
funny things(make long documents, programing, be more
geeker, etc..) it will be very recomendable to have an
external Keyboard, but as portable as the Neo itself
so. I was googling and I have found this affordable BT
keyboard (in spanish layout also :))  
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=150219917678ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123

I have found no any reference in linux about
compatibility(or lack of it) so if any one has
experience or has a Neo and want to try If it works I
maybe buy one of this  before the phone  


   
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Re: Problem trying to build qemu-local using MokoMakefile

2008-03-04 Thread Evgeny Ginzburg

François TOURDE wrote:

Hi,

Trying to run make qemu-local, I got the following message, some
lines after Please wait, programming the NAND flash...

-8---8---8---8---8--
neo_vib_switch: Vibrator stopped.
neo_bl_switch: LCD Backlight now on.
qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x
-8---8---8---8---8--

(More detailed trace can be found here: http://pastebin.com/m239ade67)

Got the same error
on Debian sid


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Re: Any experience with iGO stowaway BT keyboard?

2008-03-04 Thread Marcus Bauer

I got it from amazon uk (qwerty) without the Dell branding and it works
like a charme. Just switch on bluetooth and then do

 hidd --search

That's it. 

If there are plenty of other BT things around you, go with

 hidd --connect BT-MAC-OF-KEYBOARD


Apart from being careful when opening and closing it, the keys work
really well, nice touch - you can type pretty fast.

Marcus


On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:55 +0100, David Samblas Martinez wrote:
 I was dreaming/whishing/fantasizing about owning a
 Freerunner and I finally decide that for a lot of
 funny things(make long documents, programing, be more
 geeker, etc..) it will be very recomendable to have an
 external Keyboard, but as portable as the Neo itself
 so. I was googling and I have found this affordable BT
 keyboard (in spanish layout also :))  
 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=150219917678ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123
 
 I have found no any reference in linux about
 compatibility(or lack of it) so if any one has
 experience or has a Neo and want to try If it works I
 maybe buy one of this  before the phone  



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Re: Any experience with this BT keyboard?

2008-03-04 Thread Federico Belvisi
David Samblas Martinez ha scritto:
 I was dreaming/whishing/fantasizing about owning a
 Freerunner and I finally decide that for a lot of
 funny things(make long documents, programing, be more
 geeker, etc..) it will be very recomendable to have an
 external Keyboard, but as portable as the Neo itself
 so. I was googling and I have found this affordable BT
 keyboard (in spanish layout also :))  
 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=150219917678ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123
 
 I have found no any reference in linux about
 compatibility(or lack of it) so if any one has
 experience or has a Neo and want to try If it works I
 maybe buy one of this  before the phone  

I have one of these keyboards, seems that Dell rebranded it because the
original is from ThinkOutside.

I use it on Symbian, but it also works well with Ubuntu. I think that this
keyboard works until the host has HID bluetooth or something like that, you
know, if your pc recognizes bluetooth keyboards then this keyboard should work
too without additional drivers.

I'm hoping too to use that keyboard myself on the Freerunner!

Nice keyboard anyway, very compact, i think the best in the market atm.

-- 
Federico Belvisi

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Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Jay Vaughan
Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the  
neo has USB power.



i did this.  i had to get a new neo: my first one got *fried* from  
this.  dunno what to do with the old one, frankly it bothers me  
having it sit there doing nothing.  anyone got any suggestions?


;
--
Jay Vaughan





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Audio wired Headset

2008-03-04 Thread Gilles Casse
Hi all,

I am a little bit embarrassed: my audio headset is lost, another one
bought recently is not compatible (a 4 ring model for a Nokia, the
resulting sound is too low, almost unusable).

Is it possible to buy a new audio wired headset from OpenMoko.inc?
Otherwise, where can we get one please (OpenMoko distributor?).

The wiki mentions several models.

Analog wired Headset
There's a four-ring 2.5mm stereo jack which provides connectivity to
old-fashioned wired headsets.
The headsets used by Motorola smartphones (A780,A1200, ...) and the V-360
have a compatible configuration.

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_hardware#Audio

There is a A1200 model in ebay, but it seems to come with a very different
plug :-/

Gilles



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Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Duvelle Jones
Hi, tis me again. A little bit of forward thinking here. When I first
came to OpenMoko it was a mid the torrent of the iPhone hype. I will
admit that I was dissolution with the possibility that the multi-touch
interface was an easy addition to OpenMoko. With some time to think and
study the availability of the technology, I soon realized that my
thinking on the matter was quite naive. 
Maybe I still am naive on the matter, but considering alot of the hard
work to get GTA02 off the ground and running, I was thinking that if
OpenMoko was considering the possibility of a multi-touch interface
seriously maybe it is something that could be found on the next device
afterwards (be it the GTA03 or something later). If that is the case,
then such an input device will not appear out of thin air. At this point
and time what would be realistic, would Openmoko Inc. form a partnership
with supplier of the technology, does FIC Group happen to have something
inhouse that could be utilized? What are the legal implications and
potholes? Etc.
Truth is that I love the concept behind the Openmoko phone. A phone that
'I' truly control, not my provider, not the manufacturer (not
completely, anyway). A phone that grants me, 'freedom'. If anything,
considering what is out there, I would like to more open-idea to
establishing that sense of freedom so I only offer this chance to
brain storm what else we can do to provide that. Here is hoping that I
have not let the genie out of the bottle.

Duv
P.S.: I apologize in advance for the possibility of this discussion
degrading into a flame-fest, that is not my intention.



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Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Tilman Baumann

Jay Vaughan wrote:
Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the 
neo has USB power.



i did this.  i had to get a new neo: my first one got *fried* from 
this.  dunno what to do with the old one, frankly it bothers me having 
it sit there doing nothing.  anyone got any suggestions?


The dead part should be easy to find. And all chips are known...
I would say, try to repair it. Or find someone who can...

Do you know what part is dead?

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Re: Audio wired Headset

2008-03-04 Thread joerg
Am Di  4. März 2008 schrieb Gilles Casse:
 Hi all,
 
 I am a little bit embarrassed: my audio headset is lost, another one
 bought recently is not compatible (a 4 ring model for a Nokia, the
 resulting sound is too low, almost unusable).
 
 Is it possible to buy a new audio wired headset from OpenMoko.inc?
 Otherwise, where can we get one please (OpenMoko distributor?).
 
 The wiki mentions several models.
 
 Analog wired Headset
 There's a four-ring 2.5mm stereo jack which provides connectivity to
 old-fashioned wired headsets.
 The headsets used by Motorola smartphones (A780,A1200, ...) and the V-360
 have a compatible configuration.
 
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_hardware#Audio

I can't help by selling headsets, but at least i may deliver exact pinout for 
the jack from diagrams, so you might check for compatibility.

base = ground 
speaker left  (internal impedance 33R) to ground. (+jackinsert detection)
speaker right (internal impedance 33R) to ground.
tip = mic electret condenser type, to ground. 
  bias (power for mic) 2K2 from +3.3v(wolfson codec) 
  (+HoldButton shortcircuit to ground)

Due to the internal 33R resistors, any low impedance headset will not work (or 
only low sound). I guess 40R should be minimum impedance for the speakers.

cheers
jOERG

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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread joerg
Am Di  4. März 2008 schrieb Duvelle Jones:
 I will
 admit that I was dissolution with the possibility that the multi-touch
 interface was an easy addition to OpenMoko. With some time to think and
 study the availability of the technology, I soon realized that my
 thinking on the matter was quite naive.

I'm investigating to squeeze some multi-touch properties out of the GTA02 
4wire-resistor touchscreen, by hacking the basics and probing the ts in a 
couple non-recommended completely different manners. There still is a little 
hope...

However this is not meant to distract attention from discussion of a true 
multi-ts for GTA03. I think this should be a capacitive one.


jOERG

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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Andrea Debortoli
I think this is an interesting reading about iphone multi-touch screen:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/iphone1.htm


2008/3/4, joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Am Di  4. März 2008 schrieb Duvelle Jones:

  I will
  admit that I was dissolution with the possibility that the multi-touch
  interface was an easy addition to OpenMoko. With some time to think and
  study the availability of the technology, I soon realized that my
  thinking on the matter was quite naive.


 I'm investigating to squeeze some multi-touch properties out of the GTA02
 4wire-resistor touchscreen, by hacking the basics and probing the ts in a
 couple non-recommended completely different manners. There still is a
 little
 hope...

 However this is not meant to distract attention from discussion of a true
 multi-ts for GTA03. I think this should be a capacitive one.



 jOERG


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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Hi guys,

I have thought a bit about multitouch and its possible usecases and the longer 
I think about it the less exciting I find it on a mobile phone.

The technology per se is great and I'm sure it will allow for great innovation 
among UI's on large monitors, tablets, and even desks.

However, on small screen systems such as the Neo (or even the iPhone) -- what 
do you want to do with it? The ubiquitous zooming and rotating examples are 
not convincing me at all. With some clever state logic you can zoom and 
rotate very efficient on unitouch systems.

So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone?

:M:

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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Federico
  So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone?

maybe pressing the shift key for typing uppercase letters :P

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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
 Hi guys,

 I have thought a bit about multitouch and its possible usecases and the
 longer I think about it the less exciting I find it on a mobile phone.

 The technology per se is great and I'm sure it will allow for great
 innovation among UI's on large monitors, tablets, and even desks.

 However, on small screen systems such as the Neo (or even the iPhone) --
 what do you want to do with it? The ubiquitous zooming and rotating
 examples are not convincing me at all. With some clever state logic you can
 zoom and rotate very efficient on unitouch systems.

 So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone?

Small screen systems aren't just phones, as Sean has mentioned for future 
OpenMoko devices. Some things need more than one channel of simultaneous 
input, so with unitouch systems you can't use virtual controls onscreen; you 
have to start adding physical controls, or suffer a limited application. Off 
the top of my head here are a couple:
* Emulating a pair of analogue thumb controllers. I remember a text input 
method using simultaneous input from 2 8-way hat switches too.
* Audio mixer - think portable DJ apps.


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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Ben Burdette

Federico wrote:

 So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone?



maybe pressing the shift key for typing uppercase letters :P

  

Or other chording based text entry schemes...

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Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:47:40 +0100
Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the  
  neo has USB power.
 
 
 i did this.  i had to get a new neo: my first one got *fried* from  
 this.  dunno what to do with the old one, frankly it bothers me  
 having it sit there doing nothing.  anyone got any suggestions?
[...]

Yes, send it to me.

I wish that you had made this offer before we went and bought one.

Regards,
Gora

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Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Nick Guenther
Okay, thanks for the clarification. I was just concerned about hearsay
on the list. Thanks for the science.
-Nick


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Ben Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hey Nick,

  I've not looked at the electronics inside the neo myself but the sound
  is typical in the electronics world of a switchmode power supply under
  grate strain.

  I was told by someone on the irc channel that OM folks recommend you
  don't do it and
  being an electronics engineer myself i recommend this too. The sound is not
  something the phone should be emitting in normal operation.


  Nick Guenther wrote:
   On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Ben Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Hey,
  
Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the neo
has USB power.
  
You may not have heard it but the phone gets quite angry. As evident by
a quiet scream the phone emits as the components in its power system
begin to vibrate closer to magic smoke land.
  
  
   Is this true? I haven't been worrying about the scream at all myself.
   how do you know the whine is from power components?
  
   -Nick
  


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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

The ubiquitous zooming and rotating examples are not convincing me at all.

They seem pretty cool to me.

  So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone?

How do you right-click on a touchscreen?  The old way has been to hold
down the stylus for some timeout period.  But with multitouch there
are other alternatives.  One will probably emerge as the standard.
You might even be able to detect different fingers by the shape of the
contact patch, so different fingers have different actions.

I'd like to play with it, but right now my choices are: buy an iphone
and hack it; or build my own FTIR table.

Without even thinking about specific use cases though, isn't it clear
that multitouch is the superior technology?  If you add a new
capability and allow developers to play with it, new uses will emerge
which nobody has yet thought of.  Besides it's more durable: it won't
mechanically wear out like resistive touchscreens do, and the screen
can be glass instead of scratchable plastic.  Maybe even could be a
mineral crystal like a good watch.

Maybe you are just making excuses based on the fact that you think
multitouch is unobtanium at this point?

It has been discovered that the necessary chip is made by Broadcom,
with the model number BCM5974.  Funny thing is, when you google that
you just find a zillion copies of the same blog by someone who
disassembled the iPhone (and the Air) and discovered that; I haven't
found anything on Broadcom's site.  So I don't understand if Apple was
able to coerce them into making it exclusive.  I mean, Apple bought
Fingerworks and thereby got the technology, right?  Then what... they
said well we don't have a fab, do we? so they made an agreement with
Broadcom to manufacture the chips on the condition that they are not
allowed to sell them to anyone else?  (Just guessing)  Well how long
do you think that will last?  Maybe the exclusivity expires after some
period of time; and Broadcom knows that either they will find a way to
sell to everyone, or the competition will catch up and do it for them.
 Soon we will see another supplier, because it's too hot to be
ignored.  (It's also a good question, who made the chips for
Fingerworks.)  In a couple years there will probably be chintzy LCD
multi-touch wristwatches or something.  By that point it will be
uninteresting.

But FIC ought to try to feel their way around this situation: chat up
the sales guys and FAE's at Broadcom and find out if there's any way
to buy this chip.  It reputedly costs a mere $3.  I agree, the next
Neo needs this capability.

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Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-04 Thread Jeff Andros
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:23:07 +0100, kenneth marken wrote:

 like pidgin for im support of any kind.


 Now *that* is a cool idea :)


probably not pidgin itself, it's not set up for a full screen display... but
libpurple is the engine behind pidgin, all that's needed is a custom
front-end

Personally, I'd like to see a plugin for pidgin that turns it into an IM
proxy... the NEO would connect in to my system here and use pidgin on it...
that way I have unified logs, a single place to sign in, etc

-- 
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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 3/4/08, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi guys,

 I have thought a bit about multitouch and its possible usecases and the
 longer
 I think about it the less exciting I find it on a mobile phone.

 The technology per se is great and I'm sure it will allow for great
 innovation
 among UI's on large monitors, tablets, and even desks.

 However, on small screen systems such as the Neo (or even the iPhone) --
 what
 do you want to do with it? The ubiquitous zooming and rotating examples are
 not convincing me at all. With some clever state logic you can zoom and
 rotate very efficient on unitouch systems.

 So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone?

 :M:


If there will ever be a dedicated OpenMoko gaming device, it needs a
multitouch screen. However, with a phone, even if it is a fully
featured pocket computer, I can't think of many things where it would
be useful, either. Zooming and rotating should be very doable with one
finger and some thinking. In fact, much of this thinking was already
done on this list months ago.

When multitouch screens become cheap and easy to get, of course one
should be included in every Openmoko device. For now it seems like a
very low priority thing. We haven't even begun to explore the
potential of a unitouch screen!

I don't want much right clicking on my phone. However, if it ever
becomes useful/necessary somewhere, you can always assign it to
AUX+tap.

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screen orientation sensible already developed?

2008-03-04 Thread David Samblas Martinez
After see this video, is clear that change the orientation of the screen is 
already in almost one openmoko relesase , doesn't care if in real alpha state 
or not, it exist and works almost one time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btY2SFVrOscNR=1

where can I find actualice information about status of development and if in 
almost usable state donwload to see how is done ( I barely understand on bash 
code, sigh )  but to I have been able  to   develop and successufully compile a 
(great qualified) mathematical  simulation on C whith treads control  on my old 
faithful jornada 680 sh3 processor at 133 Mz with 32M in a minimal a but 
wonderfull Jlime gnu/Linux distribution.  I suppose  I will  be able to hack 
anything  when this precious arribe at my hands,...  

So the cuestion s are: 
Is have been developed interaction with the accelerometers, yet?, 
What's the library/ies to interact that include the rotate_mokocanvas_freaking 
_sweet(degrees deg) function?
What's the library/ies to interact that include the int 
Hey_dude_how_many_horizontal_degrees_you_are_right_now() function/daemon?

regards
 


   
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iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread Kyle Bassett
Well, through some mysterious events within the past few days and some
favors people owe me, I have acquired an 8GB iPhone (without the ATT
contract)!  Now don't think this means I am defecting to the iPhone
community, by any means :-)  I actually am writing for suggestions to make
this iPhone helpful to the OpenMoko community.  Please don't ask me to smash
or demolish it...yet.  I have been messing around with it the last few days,
and there are a ton of usability suggestions that can and will benefit
OM/Neo.  Firstly, I want to say that I am very disappointed with the
iPhone's touch resolution (not the viewable screen, the physical touch
interface).

There are other threads relating to iPhone vs. OM/Neo interfacing, but I
believe we should start from ground zero now that we know we have an iPhone
to play with.

I am still debating lending the phone out to those who want to play with it,
depending on the interest of the community, we'll see where it goes.

Details will follow!

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Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-04 Thread kenneth marken
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 21:28:11 Jeff Andros wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:23:07 +0100, kenneth marken wrote:
 
  like pidgin for im support of any kind.
 
 
  Now *that* is a cool idea :)

 probably not pidgin itself, it's not set up for a full screen display...
 but libpurple is the engine behind pidgin, all that's needed is a custom
 front-end

 Personally, I'd like to see a plugin for pidgin that turns it into an IM
 proxy... the NEO would connect in to my system here and use pidgin on it...
 that way I have unified logs, a single place to sign in, etc

well, i guess one option would be a xmpp server...

but i dont know about server side logs...

i have been mentally toying with turning xmpp into a kind of mail server...

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Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-04 Thread ian douglas

Jeff Andros wrote:
Personally, I'd like to see a plugin for pidgin that turns it into an IM 
proxy... the NEO would connect in to my system here and use pidgin on 
it... that way I have unified logs, a single place to sign in, etc


I concur -- running Pidgin on three different platforms, it's a serious 
pain to copy logs and account settings to all machines. The proxy idea 
is an interesting thought.


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Re: Audio wired Headset

2008-03-04 Thread ian douglas

Am Di  4. März 2008 schrieb Gilles Casse:

Is it possible to buy a new audio wired headset from OpenMoko.inc?
Otherwise, where can we get one please (OpenMoko distributor?).


I mentioned to Michael at SCALE 2008 that having a 'store' where we 
could buy stray parts, like batteries would be a great idea. He 
mentioned too that selling just the debug board with JTAG connectors, 
etc., would make a lot of sense too.


Michael, any update on this?

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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread ian douglas

Kyle Bassett wrote:

I have acquired an 8GB iPhone
I actually am writing for suggestions to 
make this iPhone helpful to the OpenMoko community.


Likewise, I won an 8GB iPod Touch (essentially the iPhone without the 
cell phone components), and I'd love to run OpenMoko on it at some point.


I bet searching Google for hardware specs would give you enough starter 
information on configuring the OpenMoko build software to cross compile 
for the platform though? I'm not sure how you'd get/install the firmware 
on the device though given the only means to install other firmware is 
via iTunes (at least for the Touch, don't know about the iPhone).


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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Kyle Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am still debating lending the phone out to those who want to play with it,
 depending on the interest of the community, we'll see where it goes.

Sounds like Mickey needs to play with it so he can see what all the
fuss is about.  :-)

After that, uh hack it?  port Linux to it?  :-)  (but naturally that's
in the works already)

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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread David Samblas Martinez


Shawn Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:24 PM, 
Kyle Bassett  wrote:
 I am still debating lending the phone out to those who want to play with it,
 depending on the interest of the community, we'll see where it goes.

Sounds like Mickey needs to play with it so he can see what all the
fuss is about.  :-)

After that, uh hack it?  port Linux to it?  :-)  (but naturally that's
in the works already)

Where is information about this works???



   
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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Shiloh
Do you have an ATT SIM card? Does it work with your iPhone? (I know you 
said you didn't get an ATT contract.)


I'd be very interested in whether that SIM card works in a Neo.

Michael

Kyle Bassett wrote:
Well, through some mysterious events within the past few days and some 
favors people owe me, I have acquired an 8GB iPhone (without the ATT 
contract)!  Now don't think this means I am defecting to the iPhone 
community, by any means :-)  I actually am writing for suggestions to 
make this iPhone helpful to the OpenMoko community.  Please don't ask me 
to smash or demolish it...yet.  I have been messing around with it the 
last few days, and there are a ton of usability suggestions that can and 
will benefit OM/Neo.  Firstly, I want to say that I am very disappointed 
with the iPhone's touch resolution (not the viewable screen, the 
physical touch interface). 

There are other threads relating to iPhone vs. OM/Neo interfacing, but I 
believe we should start from ground zero now that we know we have an 
iPhone to play with.


I am still debating lending the phone out to those who want to play with 
it, depending on the interest of the community, we'll see where it goes.


Details will follow!

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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread ian douglas
If I recall, the iPhone is a 3G phone, but only uses EDGE on 3G, the 
slowest speed. I have a friend with an iPhone, I'll ask if I can borrow 
his SIM to see if it'll connect to ATT on my Neo later this week.


-id

Michael Shiloh wrote:
Do you have an ATT SIM card? Does it work with your iPhone? (I know you 
said you didn't get an ATT contract.)


I'd be very interested in whether that SIM card works in a Neo.



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Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-04 Thread Ivo Anjo
When you use google as a jabber/xmpp server, you can enable
server-side logs (they show up on the gmail interface).

With settings, you can always user jabber and transports for other IM
services, so that with one log in you get into all of them.

As for logs, maybe the easiest way is to just write a simple app that
gets them from the neo and merges them with the ones on your pc,
shouldn't be that hard.

Ivo Anjo

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:23 PM, kenneth marken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tuesday 04 March 2008 21:28:11 Jeff Andros wrote:
   On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:23:07 +0100, kenneth marken wrote:
   
like pidgin for im support of any kind.
   
   
Now *that* is a cool idea :)
  
   probably not pidgin itself, it's not set up for a full screen display...
   but libpurple is the engine behind pidgin, all that's needed is a custom
   front-end
  
   Personally, I'd like to see a plugin for pidgin that turns it into an IM
   proxy... the NEO would connect in to my system here and use pidgin on it...
   that way I have unified logs, a single place to sign in, etc

  well, i guess one option would be a xmpp server...

  but i dont know about server side logs...

  i have been mentally toying with turning xmpp into a kind of mail server...



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Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Jeff Andros ha scritto:



On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Thufir 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:23:07 +0100, kenneth marken wrote:

like pidgin for im support of any kind.


Now *that* is a cool idea :)


probably not pidgin itself, it's not set up for a full screen display... 
but libpurple is the engine behind pidgin, all that's needed is a custom 
front-end


Personally, I'd like to see a plugin for pidgin that turns it into an IM 
proxy... the NEO would connect in to my system here and use pidgin on 
it... that way I have unified logs, a single place to sign in, etc



I was thinking that maybe the same way should be used for chatting (and 
maybe more) with skype clients until an openmoko version of skype will 
be relesed (maybe based on that for Nokia maemo) since the closed 
(blah...!) skype client supports has API that maybe could help us!



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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread kenneth marken
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 00:08:02 ian douglas wrote:
 If I recall, the iPhone is a 3G phone, but only uses EDGE on 3G, the
 slowest speed. I have a friend with an iPhone, I'll ask if I can borrow
 his SIM to see if it'll connect to ATT on my Neo later this week.


i would not call EDGE 3G. it is a improvement on the GRPS system, that again 
is built on top of GSM.

3G in that case would be UMTS, and maybe HSDPA or HDUPA.

most phones that do UMTS also do GSM, and can do handovers between both 
networks on a call or data connection iirc.

 -id

 Michael Shiloh wrote:
  Do you have an ATT SIM card? Does it work with your iPhone? (I know you
  said you didn't get an ATT contract.)
 
  I'd be very interested in whether that SIM card works in a Neo.

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Re: Audio wired Headset

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

ian douglas ha scritto:

Am Di  4. März 2008 schrieb Gilles Casse:

Is it possible to buy a new audio wired headset from OpenMoko.inc?
Otherwise, where can we get one please (OpenMoko distributor?).


I mentioned to Michael at SCALE 2008 that having a 'store' where we 
could buy stray parts, like batteries would be a great idea. He 
mentioned too that selling just the debug board with JTAG connectors, 
etc., would make a lot of sense too.


I simply agree... JTAG for example, could be needed for standard users 
only after bricking the device, and new/extra batteries will be needed soon!


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Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-04 Thread kenneth marken
so one could set up a xmpp server at home, turn on server side logging and 
some transports to other networks as needed, and then just have a xmpp client 
on the neo that connects to it? 

or have google done some kind of custom mod for their xmpp server to get this 
to work?

would be nice if the logs showed up in a imap connection ;)

hmm, a imap/xmpp bridge, now thats a thought.

On Wednesday 05 March 2008 00:22:56 Ivo Anjo wrote:
 When you use google as a jabber/xmpp server, you can enable
 server-side logs (they show up on the gmail interface).

 With settings, you can always user jabber and transports for other IM
 services, so that with one log in you get into all of them.

 As for logs, maybe the easiest way is to just write a simple app that
 gets them from the neo and merges them with the ones on your pc,
 shouldn't be that hard.

 Ivo Anjo

 On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:23 PM, kenneth marken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Tuesday 04 March 2008 21:28:11 Jeff Andros wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:23:07 +0100, kenneth marken wrote:

 like pidgin for im support of any kind.


 Now *that* is a cool idea :)
   
probably not pidgin itself, it's not set up for a full screen
display... but libpurple is the engine behind pidgin, all that's
needed is a custom front-end
   
Personally, I'd like to see a plugin for pidgin that turns it into an
IM proxy... the NEO would connect in to my system here and use pidgin
on it... that way I have unified logs, a single place to sign in, etc
 
   well, i guess one option would be a xmpp server...
 
   but i dont know about server side logs...
 
   i have been mentally toying with turning xmpp into a kind of mail
  server...
 
 
 
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Re: Audio wired Headset

2008-03-04 Thread ian douglas

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
I simply agree... JTAG for example, could be needed for standard users 
only after bricking the device, and new/extra batteries will be needed 
soon!


So:

- batteries
- headphones
- JTAG interfaces
- sylus
- stylus batteries?

I'm not sure it's economically worthwihle trying to resell microSD cards 
since that's a well-saturated market, though the convenience of being 
able to purchase them while purchasing other items might be nice?


Any other ideas?

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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

joerg ha scritto:
I'm investigating to squeeze some multi-touch properties out of the GTA02 
4wire-resistor touchscreen, by hacking the basics and probing the ts in a 
couple non-recommended completely different manners. There still is a little 
hope...


What's your hope exactly?
Do you have some secrets to share? :P

However this is not meant to distract attention from discussion of a true 
multi-ts for GTA03. I think this should be a capacitive one.


I do agree...

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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Federico ha scritto:

 So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone?


maybe pressing the shift key for typing uppercase letters :P


Not so useful imho... We don't write so quickly on small-screen based 
devices to need a combination-input.
For istance, the iPhone has not a such feature (its ultra-sensitive 
[bad] keyboard only takes a touch a time also for the shift key).


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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 22:38:52 Shawn Rutledge wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Kyle Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I am still debating lending the phone out to those who want to play with
  it, depending on the interest of the community, we'll see where it goes.

 Sounds like Mickey needs to play with it so he can see what all the
 fuss is about.  :-)

;-)

Well, I have already seen it once and was impressed by the industrial and 
mechanical design. I was not so much impressed by the actual software though, 
the FOSS community has all the tools in the pipeline, we just need to get our 
act together and compile them to a kick-ass framework and some innovative 
apps (not forgetting bread and butter of course). The software technology is 
there and waiting for us...

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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Ortwin Regel ha scritto:

If there will ever be a dedicated OpenMoko gaming device, it needs a
multitouch screen.


Well, yes I think it won't be possible to run games with an on-screen 
virtual gamepad as the iPhone/iPodTouch does.

Do I am wrong?


However, with a phone, even if it is a fully
featured pocket computer, I can't think of many things where it would
be useful, either. Zooming and rotating should be very doable with one
finger and some thinking. In fact, much of this thinking was already
done on this list months ago.


I do agree, but for me these rotate and resize features imho aren't so 
needed as soon they're cool to see.
Also using a touch-only screen they don't loose their usability: the 
resize, mostly, could be done simply with a scroll, while the rotation 
using the gimp-way (put a placeholder on the rotating fulcrum tapping, 
then use a finger dragging the image...).
I can't find more things that really need a multi-touch screen, since I 
won't paint on it and I neither will do a collaborative work... :P


Then I'd like to know more infos about *tapping* in Neo.
I mean, in my notebooks with Synaptics touchpads I can easily use more 
than a finger to play some useful actions like:

 - Left clik with a finger tapping
 - Middle clik with two fingers tapping
 - Right clik with three fingers tapping
 - Vertical / Horizontal scroll with two fingers sliding [1]

Well, are these features available on GTA02 too?
In fact, if the answer would be yes, we could easily use the 
multi-fingers tapping/scrolling features to control the phone in a more 
comfortable way (for example allowing right-clicks no more 
pressure-time based, or allowing operations on images like the ones I 
mentioned above).


Bye

   Treviño


[1] http://tinyurl.com/2sawey (iMac like)

PS: That's so strange (and funny), today exactly few minutes before the 
topic was started I wandered about multi-touching in Neo and how it was 
used in iPhone, reading and looking much of resources... :P


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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

kenneth marken ha scritto:

On Wednesday 05 March 2008 00:08:02 ian douglas wrote:

If I recall, the iPhone is a 3G phone, but only uses EDGE on 3G, the
slowest speed. I have a friend with an iPhone, I'll ask if I can borrow
his SIM to see if it'll connect to ATT on my Neo later this week.



i would not call EDGE 3G. it is a improvement on the GRPS system, that again 
is built on top of GSM.


In fact, generally, it's called 2.5G :P

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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread kenneth marken
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 01:28:03 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
 kenneth marken ha scritto:
  On Wednesday 05 March 2008 00:08:02 ian douglas wrote:
  If I recall, the iPhone is a 3G phone, but only uses EDGE on 3G, the
  slowest speed. I have a friend with an iPhone, I'll ask if I can borrow
  his SIM to see if it'll connect to ATT on my Neo later this week.
 
  i would not call EDGE 3G. it is a improvement on the GRPS system, that
  again is built on top of GSM.

 In fact, generally, it's called 2.5G :P

true, but i kinda dislike those G designations as the are very 
non-informative.

i keep seeing the local press refering to hsdpa as super-3G, but thats not 
given. as such, its much better to read the actual product specs as they at 
least list the proper designations.

and just to deliver a small kick towards apple, thats why i hate hearing about 
their superdrive. hell, even their refreshing of products throw in a wrench 
at times. sure someone is using a macbook pro, but what generation macbook 
pro?!

but then im a geek. to most the under-the-hood stuff will fly by them at mach 
16. they just want their gizmo to do what they ask of it without fail or 
hickups.

i guess its the same thing with cars. some love to talk about CCM's, torque 
and all that, while others just want it to drive them flawlessly from a to b, 
and look good while doing so.

i just wish that computer stats where as fashionable as car stats...

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GTA02v6: any rumor?

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

It has been mentioned on svn logs: http://tinyurl.com/2wfsmk

What will be the differences with GTA02v5? Maybe also echo audio fixes [1]?

I'm becoming every day more curious about this new device...! :P

[1] http://tinyurl.com/2j5ca7

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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Also using a touch-only screen they don't loose their usability: the
  resize, mostly, could be done simply with a scroll, while the rotation

This is kindof like saying what do you need a mouse for, your keyboard
has arrow keys doesn't it?  (or a control key... you could just move
the cursor with control-k, control-l, etc.)

The whole point is you don't need to use up any real estate with
scroll bars: an image can fill the whole screen and yet you can still
interact with it.  Dragging/panning seems more intuitive, too... it's
just that with such long experience with computers, we've gotten used
to the status quo.  As for pinching to zoom, the only thing which
makes me uncertain is the alleged existence of a patent on it...
either it will be licensed cheaply, or stricken down in court, or
Apple will just let it go unchallenged (maybe at least in the case of
open-source software), or non-Apple devices can be sold with gesture
programmability, and it's up to the end user to define what it is that
the pinch gesture will do.  Or if Apple really succeeds in keeping
that gesture for themselves, then it cannot be a standard, because
other gestures will have to be invented.  But the existence of the
original Mac did not prevent GEM or AmigaOS or Windows from being
developed, either, despite Apple's attempts to claim ownership of some
ideas.  They have no hope of preventing multi-touch itself from
becoming the accepted mainstream, and then resistive touchscreens are
probably going to be seen as obsolete.

  using the gimp-way (put a placeholder on the rotating fulcrum tapping,
  then use a finger dragging the image...).

That requires at least two steps, and involves more screen clutter (at
least a separate fulcrum object).  Gimp takes a bit of time to learn,
even if you are already familiar with Photoshop or (gods forbid) PC
Paint, like I was on my first PC, without a mouse, back in 1988.  :-)
(yes I could draw decent monochrome pictures with only the keyboard.
I sure was glad when that guy whose lawn I was mowing finally gave me
a surplus optical mouse, though.)

Interaction design always has room for improvement, and major new
technologies like this really open up the possibilities.

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Re: iPhone Acquired!

2008-03-04 Thread Kyle Bassett
I do have an ATT sim card that came with the phone, but it is not
activated...  It is recognized by the iPhone as an ATT card.  I could put
the SIM card in the Neo and see if it is recognized, but I don't have ATT
service for it.

-Kyle

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Do you have an ATT SIM card? Does it work with your iPhone? (I know you
 said you didn't get an ATT contract.)

 I'd be very interested in whether that SIM card works in a Neo.

 Michael

 Kyle Bassett wrote:
  Well, through some mysterious events within the past few days and some
  favors people owe me, I have acquired an 8GB iPhone (without the ATT
  contract)!  Now don't think this means I am defecting to the iPhone
  community, by any means :-)  I actually am writing for suggestions to
  make this iPhone helpful to the OpenMoko community.  Please don't ask me
  to smash or demolish it...yet.  I have been messing around with it the
  last few days, and there are a ton of usability suggestions that can and
  will benefit OM/Neo.  Firstly, I want to say that I am very disappointed
  with the iPhone's touch resolution (not the viewable screen, the
  physical touch interface).
 
  There are other threads relating to iPhone vs. OM/Neo interfacing, but I
  believe we should start from ground zero now that we know we have an
  iPhone to play with.
 
  I am still debating lending the phone out to those who want to play with
  it, depending on the interest of the community, we'll see where it goes.
 
  Details will follow!
 
  -Kyle
 
 
  
 
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RE: GTA02v6: any rumor?

2008-03-04 Thread Richard Reichenbacher
I'm using qtopia on my gta01 with the fix described here: 
http://tinyurl.com/2t5mdg and it sounds fine.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Trevisan 
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Subject: GTA02v6: any rumor?

It has been mentioned on svn logs: http://tinyurl.com/2wfsmk

What will be the differences with GTA02v5? Maybe also echo audio fixes [1]?

I'm becoming every day more curious about this new device...! :P

[1] http://tinyurl.com/2j5ca7

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Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread joerg
Am Mi  5. März 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño):
 joerg ha scritto:
  I'm investigating to squeeze some multi-touch properties out of the GTA02 
  4wire-resistor touchscreen, by hacking the basics and probing the ts in a 
  couple non-recommended completely different manners. There still is a 
  little  hope...
 
 What's your hope exactly?
 Do you have some secrets to share? :P

Well, it's basically a 4wire (2 metal coated transparent plastic foils) 
design: you apply + and - at X+ X- which creates a linear voltage gradient 
over the one foil, and you messure the voltage at any of both Y of the point 
where the second foil touches the first. (and vice versa xy, for other 
coordinate). So much for the classics.
However there are a couple of other permutations to apply + and minus and/or 
leave open and where to probe for voltage, given you have 4 wires and 3 
states (+,-,probe+open) for each one of the 4 to choose from. Hard to explain 
without some graphics showing a simplified circuit diagram.

And then, if all this fails, there still remains the dynamic approach 
(pulse-response), for there are two planes creating a R-C-R-C-R... network, 
resembling somewhat like e.g. a coax cable. You know you can analyze coax 
(10Base2 ethernet, even BaseT) for position of sharp bends with an analysis 
of pulse response. Somewhat like hitting a drum and telling from resulting 
sound where there are the 2 stones on the drum membrane.

All this *VERY* theoretical anyway for now, for i got scope etc, but even 
don't have real hw to test with it :-( (who was the guy with a fried NEO and 
no idea what to do with it? I had a real use for it, even better when it's 
broken), and i was too lazy (or too poorly gifted) to do the math yet.
 What i expect/hope: At least i now got diagrams, so i know what _can_ or 
_must_not_ be done with given hw in GTA01/02. Just dreaming for now... ;-) 
But i'm quite sure it's feasible to get at least kinda force feedback for the 
single touch. Maybe more... Amazing what 12 formulae with 5 (10) unknown 
variables(R) can reveal (ok, this are just numbers for instance, didn't the 
math yet).
When it comes to dynamic pulse response analysis - with all sorts of filters 
and the whole scary stuff (any volunteers?), we probably even get the weight 
of user-C touching the screen ;-) In an ideal world. A/D converters of CPU to 
sample the response are not _so_ bad.

All this [patent pending, (C), smells like me etc]:jOERG ;-). At least mention 
me, and send me a beer each day, and this is prior art. Ehrrm.
This week CeBIT, let's see what's my schedule for next week.

cheers
jOERG

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