Re: Navigation board @ Pulster shop

2011-06-18 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Samstag 18 Juni 2011, 14:51:05 schrieb Daniele Forsi: 2011/6/17 Christoph Pulster wrote: I think the Open Source community is missing to link and interaction between projects. Add-on products like navigation-board can cross the gap, for exaple it is useful for Openmoko, Qi Nanonote and

GTA04A3 test progress

2011-06-17 Thread Christoph Mair
Hi, finally here is a status update on the GTA04A3 board. That's what I've done until now to test it: - attach power, serial console works - boot from sd card (works) - revert I2C-fix from u-boot and kernel - works without: the hardware is ok, the power supply issues are gone. - test switches

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04A3 board boots

2011-06-16 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Freitag 17 Juni 2011, 00:10:49 schrieb WB: --- On Tue, 14/6/11, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Christoph and Rene will be the first ones to test them starting on Thursday. Eh, not being impatient or anything... but is there news ? :-)

Re: FreeRunner Navigation Board v3 - Power management

2011-05-22 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Sonntag 22 Mai 2011, 11:44:24 schrieben Sie: Hi, 2011/5/21 Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net: Hi, Am Samstag 21 Mai 2011, 16:41:06 schrieb Martix: How much of power Navigation Board v3 consume, both in operational state (all sensors are active) and in idle state (all sensors

Re: FreeRunner Navigation Board v3 - Power management

2011-05-21 Thread Christoph Mair
Hi, Am Samstag 21 Mai 2011, 16:41:06 schrieb Martix: How much of power Navigation Board v3 consume, both in operational state (all sensors are active) and in idle state (all sensors are powered down)? Can I power down whole board from software? All sensors support a sleep state which reduces

ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v3 (FRNBv3)

2011-04-12 Thread Christoph Mair
Dear List, I already announced it (http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2011- February/064474.html), now I'm ready to start production: The Freerunner Navigation Board v3 is finished! It features a compass, a gyroscope and an accelerometer. All of them work in three dimensions.

Re: FRNBv2 is dead. Long live FRNBv3!

2011-03-01 Thread Christoph Mair
HI Boudewijn, Am Dienstag 01 März 2011, 13:13:08 schrieb W. B. Kranendonk: Which software do you use for the layout? I've tried both pcb (gEDA) and pcbnew (KiCAD), but neither shows anything after opening the files at chonyota.net (complaints about missing components; I don't have the details

FRNBv2 is dead. Long live FRNBv3!

2011-02-28 Thread Christoph Mair
Dear list, unfortunately the compass chip included in the FRNBv2 is no longer available. Thus, I am not able to produce the FRNBv2 anymore. For those of you who still want the board I am designing the FRNB version 3. The discontinued chip HMC5843 will be replaced with it's successor HMC5883

Re: barom - an altimeter/weather utility for freerunner

2011-02-06 Thread Christoph Mair
Hi Ben! Am Samstag 05 Februar 2011, 23:56:18 schrieb Benjamin Deering: This project uses the bmp085 barometer to show either weather or altitude. The bmp085 is part of the freerunner navigation board, is to be part of the GTA04, and can be installed separately. I don't think I have an

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: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Freitag 13 August 2010, 11:47:26 schrieb sam tygier: On 13/08/10 10:37, Matthias Apitz wrote: Give me UNIX or give me a pencil :-) +1 with emphasis on being about to modify I won't buy something without documented test/solder pads for hardware extensions. Christoph

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: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2

2010-06-20 Thread Christoph Mair
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 triaxial gyroscope

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: [gta02-core] Openmoko Beagle Hybrid

2010-06-16 Thread Christoph Mair
Hi Joerg! Am Mittwoch 16 Juni 2010, 21:51:53 schrieb Joerg Eesmann: Hi Nikolaus, Very good stuff, an open phone with OMAP3530-Power, my dream... I am a little off topic here, but I take the chance to ask eitherway. I am thinking about a little simpler NaviBoard. The actual Naviboard has

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

2010-05-02 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 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

Re: little question about navigation board

2010-05-02 Thread Christoph Mair
On Sunday 02 May 2010 19:57:02 Alfa21 wrote: hi, first of all, congrats for your work :) now my question: why to add two more gyroscope sensors (so now we have 4 of them in our FR O_O) The Freerunner has two accelerometers, but no gyroscope. and not just merge a compass to the pressure

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 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

Re: [Shr-User] UBI success story

2010-01-04 Thread Christoph Mair
[sent again to reach the mailing lists] On Sunday 03 January 2010 13:11:52 Martin Jansa wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 09:25:57PM +0100, Christoph Mair wrote: Hello, I tried to use SHR the ubi images on my freerunner, but they did not work. Does someone know the parameters which

UBI success story

2009-12-26 Thread Christoph Mair
Hello, I tried to use SHR the ubi images on my freerunner, but they did not work. Does someone know the parameters which are passed to mkfs.ubifs? I think that the ubi fileystem is created for NAND flashes with subpage support, but this feature does not work on the freerunner. Passing -s 2048

Re: Internal pressure sensor

2009-10-04 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009 17:14:43 schrieben Sie: eg rfid: nokia announces it since years, but FR could be fo fast...im sorry, maybe im just to optimistic... I was thinking about adding a rfid reader but could not find an antenna which is small enough. Probably there were other problems too..

Re: Internal pressure sensor

2009-10-01 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 06:42:24 schrieben Sie: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Mikhail Umorin mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 September 2009 16:18:51 Christoph Mair wrote: Hi, I successfully added a pressure sensor to my Freerunner. The BMP085 chip from Bosch Sensortec

Re: Internal pressure sensor

2009-10-01 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 16:57:18 schrieben Sie: On 30 Sep 2009, at 22:18, Christoph Mair wrote: ... I successfully added a pressure sensor to my Freerunner. The BMP085 chip from Bosch Sensortec is a small (5x5x1.5mm) chip which includes a pressure and a temperature sensor. Power

Re: Universal Remote for CE/HA? (openmoko)

2009-09-30 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Mittwoch 30 September 2009 07:51:26 schrieben Sie: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Jed jedi.the...@gmail.com wrote: I glued a infrared led into the aux key for this purpose. Did someone already try to compile lirc for the FR? My attempt to just 'bitbake' it failed (missing kernel

Internal pressure sensor

2009-09-30 Thread Christoph Mair
Hi, I successfully added a pressure sensor to my Freerunner. The BMP085 chip from Bosch Sensortec is a small (5x5x1.5mm) chip which includes a pressure and a temperature sensor. Power and I2C is enough to get it working. I glued it next to the BT antenna. The wiki page contains some pictures:

Re: Universal Remote for CE/HA? (openmoko)

2009-09-29 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Dienstag 29 September 2009 16:09:05 schrieben Sie: On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Jed wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if there's any good Universal Remote software for CE or HA being developed in this ecosystem? Does anyone know of anything under way or a related Linux project that

Freerunner CAD model as eDrawing

2009-09-19 Thread Christoph Mair
Hello, a friend of mine created a eDrawing from the CAD models published by Openmoko. This is a *.exe file (Windows only, sorry, but runs with wine if you are lucky) which displays the CAD model without additional requirements. You can take virtual cuts through the case and measure distances