Re: Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-22 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On 7/21/08, Joachim Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |> on the other end of the moko you can see the mic in the middle and the |> accel right of it. |> yes, its these small black rectangular boxes w

Re: Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-21 Thread Joachim Steiger
> Dee Ayy wrote: >> So my question is the same as Francesco Cat's. Where exactly are the >> accelerometers positioned on the device? >> Would someone please confirm why there are 2 accelerometers? yes there are. the intent was to detect rotation afaik. one accelerometer is 45° tilted rotated to

Re: Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-21 Thread Ian Stirling
Dee Ayy wrote: > I just heard of OpenMoko and Neo FreeRunner today. Awesome! > > > I noticed the Hardware Highlights lists "3axis Motion Sensors (2)" and > would hope that the developers included 2 accelerometers for the > purpose of sampling the rotation as well as translation. The > "closedP

Re: Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-19 Thread David Pottage
On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:47:38 Dee Ayy wrote: > Is there no camera? After tracking my stolen phone with 2 > accelerometers and GPS, my app will like a nice candid snapshot/video > of the culprit. There is no camera. Also you can't use the accelerometers to do ineral navigation for more than a

Re: Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-19 Thread Yogiz
> My head is spinning. Somewhere I think I came across an 8GB maximum > SD size. Can I not use the largest SD size I can find? Yeah you can and for now 8GB is pretty much the biggest you can find although I've heard of 16GB too. Remember that it's SD micro.

Re: Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-19 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Dee Ayy wrote: > So my question is the same as Francesco Cat's. Where exactly are the > accelerometers positioned on the device? I think you can see the accelerometers on this image: http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Gta02a5_pcba_ps.JPG They are indeed spaced as far apart as possible (Bottom le

Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-19 Thread Dee Ayy
I just heard of OpenMoko and Neo FreeRunner today. Awesome! I did see a white one some where that otherwise looks like this, and it was reported as "open". Are they related projects/products? I just subscribed to these 2 lists and could not "reply" to the thread of interest, but I think this wo