FR and Arduino (was: Re: FR and iPhone - how can they be compared?)
Sparrow, I'm very interested in details of your Arduino hookup. Can you please wikify this information? I too have Arduino plans and think the pairing with the FR allows easy prototyping of pretty arbitrary hardware. Please start a wiki page for Arduino projects! Thanks, Michael Steven ** wrote: I too would be interested in the source for this project. I intend to use an arduino board in a project of my own. -Steven On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Sparrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy Flemming, Neat idea's about the FR and custom hardware. I currently have an arduino project that works great with the Freerunner, connecting both via blue tooth and via usb. The arduino is used to control a custom irrigation solution I build on my roof using earth boxs, and the sends the data back to the FR for alerting and monitoring. If you have not checked out the arduino micro controller, take a peek (http://www.arduino.cc/) . Best regards, Steven O'Reilly On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 01:36 +0200, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: Today, I read [1]. I also read [2], and it is basically the reasons there that made me buy the Freerunner some weeks ago (look at the question part). That, and that it is a cool device to hack on! (Anyway, the iPhone is big, ugly and with a low res. screen:p) The Freerunner is doing very well, being recommended by FSF, OSM, etc, and got a lot of publicity slashdot, linuxdevices.net and many other places. Also it is very nice to use as a phone. I use it as my primary phone, with OM2007.2. As soon as I get some time, I will try to write some code for it too. There are a few issues, but if there where nothing to fix, the phone would not be of any interest to me. In stead of seeing limitations, one should see potential:) That is the beauty of free software :D One simple way to make custom hardware, is to add something to the USB port, since the USB_ID pin is connected to an ADC. I bought a lot of 5 pin mini USB plugs, and inside one, you can actually fit a complete mini circuit. I have one that works as a flash light, and one for measuring humidity. I plan to put the sensor inside, once I have written some code that actually works. I also ordered a small camera, so I will try to see if it works out of the box or if some code needs to be rewritten. The camera I bought does not have the correct electrical interface, so I need to make an adapter (USB or BT). It is a wireless cam, which I will mount on my radio car:) I will add some hardware and make a simple GTK app, so I can control the car from my phone (and see the output from the cam). I hope I ever get the time to do this. [1] http://digg.com/linux_unix/5_Questions_Give_Apple_the_iPhone_Challenge_2 [2] http://static.fsf.org/dbd/iphone-action-handout.pdf ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR and iPhone - how can they be compared?
I too would be interested in the source for this project. I intend to use an arduino board in a project of my own. -Steven On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Sparrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy Flemming, Neat idea's about the FR and custom hardware. I currently have an arduino project that works great with the Freerunner, connecting both via blue tooth and via usb. The arduino is used to control a custom irrigation solution I build on my roof using earth boxs, and the sends the data back to the FR for alerting and monitoring. If you have not checked out the arduino micro controller, take a peek (http://www.arduino.cc/) . Best regards, Steven O'Reilly On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 01:36 +0200, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: Today, I read [1]. I also read [2], and it is basically the reasons there that made me buy the Freerunner some weeks ago (look at the question part). That, and that it is a cool device to hack on! (Anyway, the iPhone is big, ugly and with a low res. screen:p) The Freerunner is doing very well, being recommended by FSF, OSM, etc, and got a lot of publicity slashdot, linuxdevices.net and many other places. Also it is very nice to use as a phone. I use it as my primary phone, with OM2007.2. As soon as I get some time, I will try to write some code for it too. There are a few issues, but if there where nothing to fix, the phone would not be of any interest to me. In stead of seeing limitations, one should see potential:) That is the beauty of free software :D One simple way to make custom hardware, is to add something to the USB port, since the USB_ID pin is connected to an ADC. I bought a lot of 5 pin mini USB plugs, and inside one, you can actually fit a complete mini circuit. I have one that works as a flash light, and one for measuring humidity. I plan to put the sensor inside, once I have written some code that actually works. I also ordered a small camera, so I will try to see if it works out of the box or if some code needs to be rewritten. The camera I bought does not have the correct electrical interface, so I need to make an adapter (USB or BT). It is a wireless cam, which I will mount on my radio car:) I will add some hardware and make a simple GTK app, so I can control the car from my phone (and see the output from the cam). I hope I ever get the time to do this. [1] http://digg.com/linux_unix/5_Questions_Give_Apple_the_iPhone_Challenge_2 [2] http://static.fsf.org/dbd/iphone-action-handout.pdf ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR and iPhone - how can they be compared?
Howdy Flemming, Neat idea's about the FR and custom hardware. I currently have an arduino project that works great with the Freerunner, connecting both via blue tooth and via usb. The arduino is used to control a custom irrigation solution I build on my roof using earth boxs, and the sends the data back to the FR for alerting and monitoring. If you have not checked out the arduino micro controller, take a peek (http://www.arduino.cc/) . Best regards, Steven O'Reilly On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 01:36 +0200, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: Today, I read [1]. I also read [2], and it is basically the reasons there that made me buy the Freerunner some weeks ago (look at the question part). That, and that it is a cool device to hack on! (Anyway, the iPhone is big, ugly and with a low res. screen:p) The Freerunner is doing very well, being recommended by FSF, OSM, etc, and got a lot of publicity slashdot, linuxdevices.net and many other places. Also it is very nice to use as a phone. I use it as my primary phone, with OM2007.2. As soon as I get some time, I will try to write some code for it too. There are a few issues, but if there where nothing to fix, the phone would not be of any interest to me. In stead of seeing limitations, one should see potential:) That is the beauty of free software :D One simple way to make custom hardware, is to add something to the USB port, since the USB_ID pin is connected to an ADC. I bought a lot of 5 pin mini USB plugs, and inside one, you can actually fit a complete mini circuit. I have one that works as a flash light, and one for measuring humidity. I plan to put the sensor inside, once I have written some code that actually works. I also ordered a small camera, so I will try to see if it works out of the box or if some code needs to be rewritten. The camera I bought does not have the correct electrical interface, so I need to make an adapter (USB or BT). It is a wireless cam, which I will mount on my radio car:) I will add some hardware and make a simple GTK app, so I can control the car from my phone (and see the output from the cam). I hope I ever get the time to do this. [1] http://digg.com/linux_unix/5_Questions_Give_Apple_the_iPhone_Challenge_2 [2] http://static.fsf.org/dbd/iphone-action-handout.pdf ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR and iPhone - how can they be compared?
Hi, On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Sparrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy Flemming, Neat idea's about the FR and custom hardware. I currently have an arduino project that works great with the Freerunner, connecting both via blue tooth and via usb. The arduino is used to control a custom irrigation solution I build on my roof using earth boxs, and the sends the data back to the FR for alerting and monitoring. Interesting. Is therer a web page for this project somewhere? Are you using a BT Arduino, or a custom bluetooth adapter? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
FR and iPhone - how can they be compared?
Today, I read [1]. I also read [2], and it is basically the reasons there that made me buy the Freerunner some weeks ago (look at the question part). That, and that it is a cool device to hack on! (Anyway, the iPhone is big, ugly and with a low res. screen:p) The Freerunner is doing very well, being recommended by FSF, OSM, etc, and got a lot of publicity slashdot, linuxdevices.net and many other places. Also it is very nice to use as a phone. I use it as my primary phone, with OM2007.2. As soon as I get some time, I will try to write some code for it too. There are a few issues, but if there where nothing to fix, the phone would not be of any interest to me. In stead of seeing limitations, one should see potential:) That is the beauty of free software :D One simple way to make custom hardware, is to add something to the USB port, since the USB_ID pin is connected to an ADC. I bought a lot of 5 pin mini USB plugs, and inside one, you can actually fit a complete mini circuit. I have one that works as a flash light, and one for measuring humidity. I plan to put the sensor inside, once I have written some code that actually works. I also ordered a small camera, so I will try to see if it works out of the box or if some code needs to be rewritten. The camera I bought does not have the correct electrical interface, so I need to make an adapter (USB or BT). It is a wireless cam, which I will mount on my radio car:) I will add some hardware and make a simple GTK app, so I can control the car from my phone (and see the output from the cam). I hope I ever get the time to do this. [1] http://digg.com/linux_unix/5_Questions_Give_Apple_the_iPhone_Challenge_2 [2] http://static.fsf.org/dbd/iphone-action-handout.pdf ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
