Re: Freerunner-powered bike ride
Just want to drop a line that I today made my first bike ride with a Freerunner mounted on the handle bar of my bike. If someone is interested I could take some photos to show what the mount-kit looks like and how the Freerunner fits in. [x] Interested! :) I took some photos and uploaded them to my blog: http://andre.web-yard.de/blog/2008/08/03/neo-freerunner-rocks-hard-rides-free/ I'll go for another bike ride right now... ;) André signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freerunner-powered bike ride
That's exactly what I've been looking for, does it hold it well? Would you be confident going over speed bumps or down a bumpy tracks at speed? Hi Tim! It holds the Freerunner pretty well, but for a bumpy track I would use the hole at the bottom of the Freerunner to secure it additionally with some sort of belt at the handle bar. Just to make sure it does not become airborne and leave the earth's atmosphere. ;) I will do this too, because sometimes I need (or want) to drive down a kerbstone and I would bite my own ass if it hits the concrete! :) cheers, André ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Fwd: Re: Freerunner-powered bike ride
Yesterday Marko Mäkelä sent me some interesting information about a charging solution for bicycles. He's not on the list and wants me to forward his mail: Original-Nachricht Betreff: Re: Freerunner-powered bike ride Datum: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 22:56:15 +0300 An: André Gaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: community@lists.openmoko.org I'm not subscribed to the list, but I've been following the development of the OpenMoko since the Neo1973 was announced. André, I think I can answer your question: The next step would be a dynamo-powered charger for the Freerunner. I read an article in the german computer magazine ct [2] about creating a converter for charging USB devices while riding your bike with a hub-dynamo. The c't article features a step-up/down converter that outputs 5 volts and a battery charger for 4 Ni-MH cells. I suppose that you'd be only using the 5-volt supply. However, I have designed a much simpler and cheaper solution that I believe should work at 500 mA. I don't know if you can convince the Freerunner to input 500 mA instead of 100 or 1000 mA, or if you can tell the Freerunner to adjust its charge current according to the voltage, as per the USB battery charging specification that the Freerunner does not comply with. My solution consists of a MOSFET rectifier bridge and a low-dropout linear voltage regulator that outputs 5 volts: http://www.iki.fi/~msmakela/electronics/dynamo5v/ The SMD version is about 14mm*22 mm, so it can be fitted inside the head tube, for example. I know of two switch-mode regulators: the c't one (which is available as a kit from segor.de) and a commercial product, the JaWeTec BikeCharger. I don't think that they're significantly better than my cheap and simple circuit. Fully charging an old Nokia DCT-3 series phone (about 1 Ah) takes about 50 km when riding at an average speed of 20 km/h. I'm going to build a small series (5 or 10 or so) of the circuit and sell it to fellow hobbyists at about 10 EUR. It'd be nice to see this being sold as a commercial product (for a similar price, I guess). Best regards, Marko Mäkelä signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GPS external antenna socket
Hi! I just bought a GPS antenna this week. It's the Navilock AT-65 MMCX: http://www.navilock.de/produkte/gruppen/12/Zusatz_Antennen/61232_AT-65_MMCX.html I paid EUR 7,90 at www.reichelt.de and it works pretty good. Got a fix with my Freerunner indoors after about 110 seconds. With the internal antenna (and SD card inserted, see thread Reason for GPS problems found) I get no fix at all indoors. I'll check the outdoor behavior later. ciao, André Joseph Reeves schrieb: It's mmcx; there's plenty of commercially available antennas available for cheap that will fit. Post results of some comparative testing if you buy one ;-) Joseph 2008/7/16 Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What standard is the GPS external antenna socket on GTA02? Are any antennas for popular GPS navigators supposed to match? I tried an external antenna for Garmin, but they use a bigger diameter. -- Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: SanDisk micro SDHC 8GB card under testing
Hey, I've got my 8 GB SanDisk microSD SDHC and my mass-production Freerunner yesterday. Works like a charm (damn, I didn't know these cards are that small! ;) ). I'll do some benchmarks and post them to the list ASAP. If you want me to do some special test runs, just let me know! ciao, André ian douglas schrieb: Hey all, Got my 8GB SanDisk 8GB micro SDHC card [1] in a few minutes ago, popped it into my GTA02v5 (beta tester model) Freerunner and running a few tests on it. So far, so good. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount | grep media /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /media/card type vfat (rw,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# df -h | grep media /dev/mmcblk0p17.6G 32.0k 7.6G 0% /media/card If anything weird comes up in my testing, I'll let everyone know. -id [1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171320 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: 1 freerunner in hamburg for sale
hi arne! do you already have it in your hands? if yes i would love to buy it! cheers, andré arne anka schrieb: hi, from the hamburg group sale (or rather purchase) i participated in there's still one freerunner available. so, if you are in the hamburg area and interested, its 294,- € -- if you're not in the hamburg area but still interested additional 8€ for shipment. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: 1 freerunner in hamburg for sale
that's wonderful! alright, so let's discuss the details (payment,...) in private mails. wouldn't be too interesting for the list... bye, andré arne anka schrieb: hi arne! do you already have it in your hands? if yes i would love to buy it! yes. the freeruners arrived friday afternoon. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Delay is getting worse...
Hey Ian, This does not prove that it's mail provider dependent. May be your w98.us account is processed earlier because it has a 'better' position in the list's processing queue. So maybe it depends on the date of subscribtion. Ciao, André ian douglas schrieb: The delay also depends on your mail provider. I'm currently subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the mail to my w98.us domain arrives about an hour earlier than my iandouglas.com domain. This message will also show up in my w98.us account within minutes of me hitting send, but my iandouglas.com domain will take about an hour or so to show up (and may also show up as a duplicate, but that's some other issue). I had subscribed my second Email account to see if duplicates happened on this account as well, and it appears to only affect my iandouglas.com subscription, so I'm going to test unsubscribing and resubscribing that account and see if duplicates still happen. It might have something to do with my Thunderbird filters, perhaps. -id ps: nice chart, Peter! Peter J. Holzer wrote: http://www.hjp.at/diverses/openmoko-delays.rxml ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Delay is getting worse...
arrived in my box at 9:00pm UTC. this mail was sent at 9:03pm UTC. Federico Lorenzi schrieb: As an experiment, this mail was sent at 7:33pm UTC. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Kosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is 13:41 here in Mexico City, and the last mail I got from the list arrived at 5:23, it is from DR. H. Nikolaus Schaller. (Re: Why not use forum) I check this box at leas once an hour and I can tell this is not good. I've been in this list for a while and I used to get the messages as soon as posted. Pleas, do somehing about it. Even my own mails get at least two hours after I send them. Thanks Kosa - Un mundo mejor es posible - ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: SV: delay in recieving mails
I observe exactly the same behaviour: the mails hit my mail server 2 hours after they are sent. And I think it has nothing to do with greylisting or any other server side mail processing because the list's mail server does not even try to connect earlier to my mail server (I checked the logs). Any idea? arriverderci, André Jörgen Lidholm schrieb: I get them very fast, my guess is it's probably something with your service provider. Regards, Jörgen -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- [EMAIL PROTECTED] För arne anka Skickat: den 15 juni 2008 23:27 Till: community@lists.openmoko.org Ämne: delay in recieving mails i get every mail more or less 2h after it is sent (polling the account ist set to 15min), though the archive (http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-June/date.html) displays them much earlier. is this intended? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Cleared to start Mass production
steffen wrote: The latest update I have from the factory indicates that mass Production (that means running the SMT line without stopping to check stuff every two seconds) has been CLEARED TO START. hmm...so where is GNU/Hurd? ... :D As far as I know GNU/Hurd will be released as a bundle together with Duke Nukem Forever. ;) @steve: awesome news! adios amigos, André signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
