Re: OT: Ubuntu phone && HTML5 / QML

2015-03-16 Thread Pascal Gosselin
> On Mar 16, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller > wrote: . > > I am just curious to understand how people think and decide such things in > March 2015. Here's my take on this: My particular vertical market need is for a very small computer that: -Boots up upon receiving an ex

Re: Open Source AHRS project: giving away hardware

2014-05-11 Thread Pascal Gosselin
On 2014-05-11, 11:28 AM, joerg Reisenweber wrote: This all assumes a locked and defined mounting situation for the magnetometer. Then yes. For an embedded device however this method tells you nothing about the magnetometer heading. The embedded device can change relative orientation to the vehicl

Re: Open Source AHRS project: giving away hardware

2014-05-11 Thread Pascal Gosselin
> On May 11, 2014, at 12:03 AM, "Ben Wong" wrote: > > Sounds like a fun challenge. I'd take it up if I wasn't already so > busy. After all, who in their life hasn't at one point wanted to write > an Unscented Kalman Filter? ;-) > > Just out of curiosity, is OpenPilot.org not a viable solution

Re: Open Source AHRS project: giving away hardware

2014-05-11 Thread Pascal Gosselin
or doing a 360 degree turn and stopping every 30 degrees. -Pascal Sent from my iPhone > On May 11, 2014, at 4:47 AM, "Jake" wrote: > >> On 05/11/2014 07:08 AM, joerg Reisenweber wrote: >>> On Sat 10 May 2014 11:57:30 Pascal Gosselin wrote: >>> calibr

Open Source AHRS project: giving away hardware

2014-05-10 Thread Pascal Gosselin
attery to give away to a serious contributor who would be willing to ensure that the AHRS code would run properly on this platform as well. You may reply to me privately or via this list. Pascal Gosselin pas...@wi-flight.net ___ Openmoko co

Cheapest AT&T or T-Mobile MVNO in USA for GTA02 GPRS ?

2014-02-26 Thread Pascal Gosselin
I am using this list as my reference to find GPRS MVNOs. I know T-Mobile still does GPRS, I am less certain about AT&T (I assume yes as well). https://uppwireless.com/ is tempting at $15 for 1GB monthly BUT the Uppwireless says "Mobile Internet service provided by Red Pocket Mobile",

Re: Fundraising for GTA04A5 has started!

2013-11-22 Thread Pascal Gosselin
What about GPS specifications ? My company would have interest in multiple units if the GPS chip was capable of 5Hz or greater updates. Recent GPS chipsets all seem to have GPS/GLONASS capability, which is very nice to have. -Pascal http://www.wi-flight.net/

Motorola backs Phonebloks

2013-10-29 Thread Pascal Gosselin
Turns out Motorola's been working on a modular smartphone concept and decided to join the Phonebloks bandwagon. With some of Google's $33 billion cash hoard, this might just go somewhere. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57609735-94/motorola-unveils-project-ara-for-custom-smartphones/ http:

Re: The "open hardware" phone project that's had the most interest

2013-10-05 Thread Pascal Gosselin
On 2013-10-05 11:06 AM, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Pascal Gosselin wrote: If technically feasible That's the problem. What immediately jumps to my mind is the small number of pins for the modules, forcing everything to be based on serial interfaces.

The "open hardware" phone project that's had the most interest

2013-10-05 Thread Pascal Gosselin
While I understand the needs/wants of open hardware, the average smartphone user really couldn't care less. That's the core of the problem, lack of a large user base. HOWEVER, what a *lot* people seem to be interested in, is an open architecture MODULAR smartphone that could be customized.

Re: GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-08 Thread Pascal Gosselin
I have found a good reference on how to best handle I2C cabling. It's a PowerPoint Presentation from Texas Instruments, I made a screenshot of the relevant image: http://s7.postimage.org/t9bfk47hn/Screen_Shot_2013_02_08_at_11_00_03_AM.png As I suspected, only one end of the shield gets groun

GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-07 Thread Pascal Gosselin
Yesterday I was able to confirm that the installation of the Golden Delicious NavBoard V3 very seriously degrades the performance of GPS when using the built-in GPS antenna. Getting a 3D fix is taking over 20 minutes on average using the built-in GPS antenna. When using an external GPS ante

Re: 5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread Pascal Gosselin
On 2012-12-09, at 5:56 PM, "francesco.dev...@mailoo.org" wrote: > >The GTA02 has a pretty good GPS receiver, and the fact that it can do 4Hz is > >critical to our application (Flight Data Monitoring). > >[...] > >I still have a couple of hundred GTA 02s that will eventually be installed > >in

Re: 5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread Pascal Gosselin
On 2012-12-09 3:25 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Pascal Gosselin writes: The GTA02 has a pretty good GPS receiver, and the fact that it can do 4Hz is critical to our application (Flight Data Monitoring). It can do 20 Hz too btw. That's pretty amazing. Tell me more ! I still have a c

5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread Pascal Gosselin
The GTA02 has a pretty good GPS receiver, and the fact that it can do 4Hz is critical to our application (Flight Data Monitoring). Has anyone succeeded in being able to get 5Hz position updates from the GTA04 with either the W2SG0004i (SiRFstarIII GPS chip) or the more recent GTA04 with W2S

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Pascal Gosselin
Question: Is is possible to do cell-based location with an de-activated SIM ?I recall that many phones will allow for an Emergency Call (911 in North America) without an active subscription. Can the Cell ID (CID) be obtained on the GTA02 in such a situation ? -Pascal ___

Re: Problems using recent Rogers Wireless (Canada) SIMs in GTA02

2012-09-29 Thread Pascal Gosselin
I have an update. I picked up yesterday a pre-paid FIDO SIM Card (Microcell/FIDO was the first GSM provider in Canada and was subsequently acquired by Rogers Wireless). The FIDO SIM card was able to see FIDO was a carrier under Android 2.2 and do Voice + SMS, but getting GPRS working turned o

Problems using recent Rogers Wireless (Canada) SIMs in GTA02

2012-09-26 Thread Pascal Gosselin
#x27;s not a one-off phone problem. -Pascal +---+ Pascal Gosselin President Wi-Flight pas...@wi-flight.net cell (514) 298-3343 office (450) 676-6299 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community