Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available

2010-12-04 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Dear list, we have received and tested the next handful of navigation boards. They are available through: http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Navigation%20Board For installation, please refer to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Freerunner_Navigation_Board_v2#Installation

Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available

2010-09-13 Thread Al Johnson
Looks good. It'll be a month or so before I can order one. On Sunday 12 September 2010, Christoph Mair wrote: Dear list, after lots of hard work I'm happy to announce that the Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available! The team from handheld-linux.com [1] kindly offered to handle

Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available

2010-09-13 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Montag 13 September 2010, 01:14:43 schrieb jeremy jozwik: indeed, is there any software in the works to take advantage of this? i think i might have to snag one and add it on when i tear open my phone to fix the sd card... Kernel drivers for most chips are available from [1]. Each sensor

ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available

2010-09-12 Thread Christoph Mair
Dear list, after lots of hard work I'm happy to announce that the Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available! The team from handheld-linux.com [1] kindly offered to handle orders and shipping. The second version of the Navigation Board includes some features which go well beyond of what

Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available

2010-09-12 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sun, 9/12/10, Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net wrote: after lots of hard work I'm happy to announce that the Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available! It looks great, congratulations! Boudewijn ___ Openmoko community

Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available

2010-09-12 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:23 PM, W. B. Kranendonk wankelwan...@yahoo.com wrote: It looks great, congratulations! indeed, is there any software in the works to take advantage of this? i think i might have to snag one and add it on when i tear open my phone to fix the sd card...

Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2

2010-06-20 Thread Tim Abell
How about an altitude (pressure) sensor? That would make up for the accuracy of GPS height data. Tim Abell Christoph Mair wrote: Hi all! Thanks to a new triaxial gyroscope chip which became available a few weeks ago I started to work on a new navigation board for the freerunner. The new

Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2

2010-06-20 Thread Christoph Mair
Hi Tim, Am Sonntag 20 Juni 2010, 18:52:06 schrieb Tim Abell: How about an altitude (pressure) sensor? That would make up for the accuracy of GPS height data. As I wrote below, the pressure sensor BMP085 from Bosch Sensortec is already included. This was one goal of the redesign. Christoph

ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2

2010-06-16 Thread Christoph Mair
Hi all! Thanks to a new triaxial gyroscope chip which became available a few weeks ago I started to work on a new navigation board for the freerunner. The new chip reduces the complexity which results in a single layer board containing the triaxial gyroscope ITG3200, the triaxial compass

Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2

2010-06-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Christoph Mair wrote: Hi all! Thanks to a new triaxial gyroscope chip which became available a few weeks ago I started to work on a new navigation board for the freerunner. The new chip reduces the complexity which results in a single layer board containing the