Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-07-21 Thread Helge Hafting
On 03. mai 2010 11:10, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: On 3 May 2010 11:04, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schallerh...@goldelico.com wrote: Having navigation work inside tunnels would allow mapping them accurately for openstreetmap. And also have underground navigation - some tunnels have got

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-07-21 Thread Helge Hafting
On 03. mai 2010 13:05, Michele Brocco wrote: On 5/3/10, Helge Haftinghelge.haft...@hist.no wrote: [...] For cars, one can get USB equipment to read the odometer pulses (and lots of other stuff besides that.) A similiar sensor can be made for bicycles - having an input for that on the board

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-07-21 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 21.07.2010 um 10:55 schrieb Helge Hafting: On 03. mai 2010 11:10, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: On 3 May 2010 11:04, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schallerh...@goldelico.com wrote: Having navigation work inside tunnels would allow mapping them accurately for openstreetmap. And also have underground

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-07-21 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Mittwoch 21 Juli 2010, 11:22:20 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Am 21.07.2010 um 10:55 schrieb Helge Hafting: On 03. mai 2010 11:10, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: On 3 May 2010 11:04, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schallerh...@goldelico.com wrote: Having navigation work inside tunnels would allow

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-07-21 Thread RANJAN
Nice. Regards Sriranjan On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net wrote: Am Mittwoch 21 Juli 2010, 11:22:20 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Am 21.07.2010 um 10:55 schrieb Helge Hafting: On 03. mai 2010 11:10, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: On 3 May 2010 11:04, Dr.

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 21 July 2010, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 21.07.2010 um 10:55 schrieb Helge Hafting: On 03. mai 2010 11:10, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: On 3 May 2010 11:04, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schallerh...@goldelico.com wrote: Having navigation work inside tunnels would allow mapping them

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-04 Thread Christoph Mair
On Monday 03 May 2010 11:10:40 Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: On 3 May 2010 11:04, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Having navigation work inside tunnels would allow mapping them accurately for openstreetmap. And also have underground navigation - some tunnels have got

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Christoph Mair wrote: Dear community, we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a navigation board! What is it? The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure rotations as well as the magnetic field in 3D respectively (i.e.

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-03 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Having navigation work inside tunnels would allow mapping them accurately for openstreetmap. And also have underground navigation - some tunnels have got intersections/roundabouts inside, with several possible exits. And then there are cities with too many tall buildings, and things

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 3 May 2010 11:04, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Having navigation work inside tunnels would allow mapping them accurately for openstreetmap. And also have underground navigation - some tunnels have got intersections/roundabouts inside, with several possible exits.

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-03 Thread Michele Brocco
On 5/3/10, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Christoph Mair wrote: Dear community, we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a navigation board! What is it? The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure rotations as well

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-02 Thread Michele Brocco
On 5/2/10, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de wrote: Congrats! Will I get a fully assembled one for free if I promise to implement FSO DBus APIs? :) Hey Mickey! In fact we planned to ship you one :) So the next one we will produce is yours. We should keep in touch regarding

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-02 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 02.05.2010, 13:54 +0200 schrieb Michele Brocco: On 5/2/10, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de wrote: Congrats! Will I get a fully assembled one for free if I promise to implement FSO DBus APIs? :) Hey Mickey! In fact we planned to ship you one :) So the next

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-02 Thread 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

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-02 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
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

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-02 Thread Christoph Mair
On Sunday 02 May 2010 17:06:55 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: 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=20t=1430p=14569hilit=d lr#p14569 And a second Freerunner will follow:

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-02 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 17:42, Christoph Mair wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2010 17:06:55 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: But seriously, one Freerunner did go to (inner) space on a research rocket (altitude was approx. 100 km):

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-02 Thread Christoph Mair
On Sunday 02 May 2010 17:57:49 Stefan Schmidt wrote: Hello. On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 17:42, Christoph Mair wrote: Unfortunately the NOR bootloader does not work when both, pressure sensor and navigation board, are connected (somebody knows why?). :) Wild guess. You are not (ab-)using the

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-02 Thread Werner Almesberger
Christoph Mair wrote: Soldering experience is definitively required. The QFN chips (gyros and compass) are somewhat difficult to handle, but you can reflow-solder them in a pizza oven. An approach I found quite efficient for occasional DIY of QFN parts on home-made PCBs is to apply a generous

Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread Christoph Mair
Dear community, we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a navigation board! What is it? The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure rotations as well as the magnetic field in 3D respectively (i.e. compass and gyroscopes integrated).

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 13:48, Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net wrote: Dear community, we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a navigation board! What is it? The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure rotations as well as the

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sat, 1 May 2010 13:48:58 +0200 Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net wrote: Dear community, we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a navigation board! What is it? The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure rotations as well

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread Werner Almesberger
Christoph Mair wrote: we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a navigation board! Very impressive. Congratulations ! I guess the next level would be to make a board that fits into one of the Embedded Air (tm) pockets also have some RF transceiver ;-) - Werner

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread Christoph Mair
On Saturday 01 May 2010 16:09:05 Werner Almesberger wrote: Christoph Mair wrote: we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a navigation board! Very impressive. Congratulations ! Thank you! I guess the next level would be to make a board that fits into one

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread Christoph Mair
On Saturday 01 May 2010 14:56:52 omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2010 13:48:58 +0200 Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net wrote: we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a navigation board! Great work! Are you going to distribute it?

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 01.05.2010 um 17:30 schrieb Christoph Mair: On Saturday 01 May 2010 14:56:52 omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2010 13:48:58 +0200 Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net wrote: we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a navigation

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Congrats! Will I get a fully assembled one for free if I promise to implement FSO DBus APIs? :) Cheers, -- :M: ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread Werner Almesberger
Christoph Mair wrote: Well, I've got a lot of other crazy ideas to fill these pockets, I just don't have enough time to realize them all. Wow, I would have never imagined that anyone else could experience this problem, too ;-) Do you have any specific requirements which I should take into