There's nothing stopping the community from trying to design some hardware.
Take a look at the Wikipedia page on open hardware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_hardware. There's lots of stuff out
there to get folks started.
We could try to create a new device, but I would rather create
In what ways can two Freerunners plausibly communicate? Which is the fastest
for data transfer?
Can they connect via WiFi without a separate router? I've seen some
discussion over how the Freerunner cannot be used as an access point. Does
this mean two Freerunners wouldn't be able to create a
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And just for fun... Would there be any practical purpose for
communicating through the headphone/mic jack?
AUDIO Routing! Yes! There are practical purposes: multiple
freerunners being used to create a symphony of
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am developing a soft-synth for OpenMoko, and I believe others are
too. We would like to jam together, but don't have a mixer. So we
route the audio of one phone to the other, and do 'soft mixing' on the
master phone ..
Here is a good comparison of the images
http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/06/28/gtk-asu-fso-tmtla/
-Charles
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would be the best image to use currently. Is the FSO an option?
Any advice?
In my opinion,
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Mo Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Are there any screenshots anywhere of the current state of FSO?
I am interested because this thread is the first I have heard of it.
I haven't been able to find any, but keep an eye on
http://planet.openmoko.org/ . That's
The web shot states, Webshop re-open gifts: 512MB microSD, Laser stylus
pen. What does that mean and will the ten packs be getting this stuff?
-Charles
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*To:* Openmoko Community
*Subject:* What's a Webshop re-open gifts?
The web shot states, Webshop re-open gifts: 512MB microSD, Laser stylus
pen. What does
I like how the packing slip was forgotten.
-Charles
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
there is a short video from the packing-process of my freerunner`s... :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmlyR7u-zhI
Anyone working on getting TIemu ported?
http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tiemu/
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After seeing the pictures of the Neo connected to a battery powered
hub, I looked around the internet to see if there were any that could
hold more batteries, but couldn't find any. Then I thought that it
would be nice to have
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Look again... there are two ports for external antennas.
Is that what the hole in the side of the Freerunner is in this image?
http://www.elitezoom.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/openmoko-neo1973-black1.jpg
This
/triclosan
- Ryan Contact me
herehttp://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/ryan(Connecticut,
actually, but close enough.)
- Charles Pax mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It
looks like things are getting organized. Bert contacted me.
- Christopher Pax
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
Is there any way to commmunicate with the Freerunner through an internal
connection (USB or serial, not I2C)? This would be useful in creating a bar
code/RFID tag reader into the back cover. If not, is something like this
planned for a future version?
-Charles
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Peter Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've been doing some robotics with Openmoko; with the Neo 1973. I thought I
would introduce myself a little.
Since January this year I have been working on a solar powered autonomous
boat project. I decided on using a
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Joachim Steiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we have added i2c, spi and a the debug serial not only on the debug
connector, but also on the golden testpads surrounding it on gta02, so
access via soldering or flatcable is easy and possible.
only VCC is not.
Wow! It looks like openmoko.com has sold out of the 850 MHz ten packs. I'm
disappointed that the Freerunners are now less available, but thrilled that
they are selling so well.
What ten pack version will be stocked first, the 850 or 900 MHz?
-Charles
Will we ever see multi-touch on the current Freerunner hardware revision? I
remember hearing something about how it's supported by the hardware, but
we're limited by X.org.
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Scott Derrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If your going to quote the email your replying to, please reply above
the quotation.
I find it much easier to read a conversation when the reply is below
original message.
Its hard enough wading through 300 emails a day
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM, matt joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A third must have rule should be; don't be lazy start a new thread.
Top/Bottom might annoy some people, but thread-jacking has a lasting
consequence. It really is an irksome practice.
Thread-jacking is annoying in the
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:24 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He asked for GTA01. WE are giving GTA02.
I look forward to printing them out and rolling around on them.
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Does anyone know what happened to the New York purchasing group? The swiki
has been down!
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and without editing text files.
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[1] http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Breakable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found some really interesting an well explained video about sim card hack
(and others)
at http://www.citizenengineer.com/.
Would the Freerunner be able to run the brute force attack on the encryption
key directly? I know
Am So 20. Juli 2008 schrieb Tobias Diedrich:
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
Hello,
2008/7/19 Tobias Diedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Looking at the Freerunner connector, it looks like it's really a
Mini-B Female connector instead of the Mini-AB Female connector as
stated on
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Al Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Monday 28 July 2008, Andy Green wrote:
It does not mention mini-AB there, it only mentions micro-AB, so now I
know even less than I did when I started :-)
Looks like mini-ab and mini-a were deprecated over a year ago
I just saw this post on Digg:
http://digg.com/software/Read_Faster_Way_Faster_No_really_I_mean_WAY_faster
There is a web application that flashed individual words from a body of text
you input. Is anyone interested in an app like this on Openmoko?
The app: http://www.spreeder.com/
-Charles
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Jeff Tickle [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I actually made something similar a month or two ago, although
admittedly it's not as pretty and refined: http://jefftickle.com/spead/
Hi, Jeff. After using the application I found on Digg I thought that it
would be nice if
people flipped when
they saw it running on a tablet. I think a video on YouTube would help get
Openmoko some additional exposure.
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Certainly I'd be willing to do a video of it, as it is very addictive
and I do enjoy playing it, but I think some of the user interface
glitches need to be fixed first .. it'd make for a smoother demo, and
we really need to
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:33 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 850 phones are proceeding down the line.
Are they proceeding down the assembly line or are they proceeding down the
supply line from the factory?
-Charles
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Hi folks,
the german online news golem reports about our FR (unfortunaly just in
german language)
http://www.golem.de/0808/61507.html
Google translate:
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Risto H. Kurppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried the Ubuntu MID edition:
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/mobile
or 'Hasty Hippogriff':
http://mojo.handhelds.org/
Is there an easy way to try these on Freerunner?
It looks like the Hasty Hoppogriff
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Stay assured we won't forget on GTA01 owners.
cheers
jOERG
added GTA01, component-placement for 01 and 02
see
http://people.openmoko.org/joerg
and
http://downloads.openmoko.org/schematics/
for some echo in
Will this be shipping with the next batch of Freerunners?
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Aapo Rantalainen
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Hi, I got numptyphysics working on debian.
Sources+data+binary
http://lauta.dyndns.org/freerunner/index.html
(not .deb yet)
Looks pretty good in the picture. Would you make a video of Numptyphysics in
action? I
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Aapo Rantalainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Video added. (via youtube)
And I almost forget that keyboard works like a charm. (that default
matchbox-keyboard)
-Aapo Rantalainen
Much thanks. Very, very cool.
-Charles
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Valerio Valerio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
besides projects.openmoko, I think OpenMoko should have a new website more
oriented to the users, it all the OpenMoko applications organized by
categories, with screenshots, small descriptions and also the direct link
Hey, gang, here's an idea: Use the Freerunner as an acoustic measuring
device. (This is just a brain dump and not super detailed.)
I got the idea while driving from Maine to New Jersey on Saturday during a
discussion with my brother about an article I had read [1]. We were trying
to think of
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Cédric Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I would think main problem is microphone sensitivity/speaker strength.
Hard to get over noise.
But I am curious to know to what point this could work !
Uncertainty in the measurement would be an issue, but to what
The problem with having an external speaker or microphone is that such a
solution does not simplify the situation. Sure, it would make the Freerunner
(plus some stuff) into a measuring device, but if we need a second piece of
hardware to take measurement, we may as well just carry around a tape
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An application like this exists on the OLPC XO written in python. I
think it's called 'Measure'. Rather than using reflected sound it uses
a second laptop to hear the sound and the clock sync is done via WiFi.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Robert William Hutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
In order to use TangoGPS over extended periods, I created myself an
extended battery pack for the Neo FreeRunner from bits and pieces I had
lying around. Check out my blog post for instructions:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I have a few Nokia batteries laying around, BL-5c and BL-6c, and
desktop chargers. They power the Freerunner fine, and seem to charge when
they're in the FR plugged in. But the Freerunner doesn't know what to do
with them apart
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
check with the distributors. Its the same product.
Also of note: koolu.com just changed their prices from CAD to USD.
-Charles
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:51 AM, carmen r [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 12:42:19PM -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
http://us.direct.openmoko.com/products/neo-freerunner
Maybe by the time I get a
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Esben Stien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thomas Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wonder if there are any plans for adding a micro-dvi[1],
mini-vga[2]
You can't use a USB mini monitor?.
Are there any USB-to-VGA adapters that would work under Openmoko?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Michele Renda [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
And please, don't forgot coffee machine too :)
Easy. Just find a food place that delivers and takes orders online. Wow, a
coffee machine you don't even need to clean. Find a delivery place that
takes orders over the phone
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Björn Martensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
They make the area for the key which is likely to be pressed next bigger
while keeping the size of the graphics the same of course, but it's less
likely that you press an r when this letter is not common in words
after
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Yorick Moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
click and hold might enable clicking through the keyboard to the
underlying layer?
I think click-and-hold is better suited to bring up a list of alternative
characters associated with a key. For example, click-and-hold the
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Yorick Moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I would use a layout based upon
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Switching_Keyboards_on_Om_2007.2#Modified_Matchbox_Keyboard:_finger_friendly
this has an easy way to enter any key you want (like esc or ctrl+c, or
Does anyone know how to replace the ink cartridge in the stylus that comes
with the Freerunner? It seems like I can just pull it out, but I don't want
to break it. Also, does anyone have a Staples of OfficeMax item number for a
good replacement cartridge? Thanks.
-Charles
I got my Freerunner on Friday and have been messing with various images, but
have not gotten GPS to work until just a few moments ago. I just want to
share with others (and archive for myself) which combination of images
allows me to get a good GPS signal right after first boot.
I used these
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I was more bored and wanted to exercise my scripting skillz, so I made
some changes to this script.
I saved your code into a file called flasher and make it executable. I
get the following error.
./flasher: line 67: syntax
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Joel Newkirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds like you did a cut'n'paste from email. The problem is that long
lines are wrapped, which breaks programs/scripts. There's at least three
places in the script that suffer from word-wrap, including several lines
that
When I hit the power button the screen faded out (suspend?), but I can't get
it to come back on. I was running TangoGPS at the time. Anyone have a hint?
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When I hit the power button the screen faded out (suspend?), but I
can't get it to come back on. I was running TangoGPS at the time.
Anyone have a hint?
seems to be a kernel bug waiting to be fixed
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Natanael Arndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just found this:
LinuxDevices.com: Open Linux phone gets datacasts
(http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6565189083.html)
Can someone explain how the the two pieces of hardware couple? It doesn't
look like they
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Evgeny Ginzburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Pax wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Natanael Arndt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just found this:
LinuxDevices.com: Open Linux phone gets datacasts
(http
So at some point here I'm guessing Zenity will have to be dropped in favor
of maybe a Python + Glade combination. Is anyone out there capable and
willing to do such a thing? It should probably happen sooner rather than
later.
-Charles
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On 9/17/08, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Surfers, fisherpeople, and I'm sure others care about the tides. Turns
out there are websites and applications that provide this data. For a
nice review:
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003037.php
Something like this would seem to be
What is the highest sampling rate I can get from the audio jack? What is the
frequency range?
I'm considering the plausibility of a little hardware project that would
turn a Freerunner or any computer with an adequate sound card into a mimio
[1] device.
The principle is an expansion on the way
with this next idea as I was turning on the shower water. The
x and y position can then be translated into screen coordinates (after
calibration). This can then be passed through ReMoko to some other device.
Combine this with a projector and you have yourself a nice smart board.
-Charles Pax
P.S. I'm
bits or just little
pieces of hardware? I figure a photodiode can be connected between signal
and ground. When suficient IR light hit it the diode should make a spike on
the mic-in channel.
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hardware.
One time I decoded the signal from an IR personal response system [1] by
pointing the transmitter at a photodiode connected to the mic-in port of my
laptop, so I know that would work.
-Charles Pax
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience_response
software. Now, however, I see there it can be done
in Linux and there's even a nice GUI [1]. On Johnny Lee's site [2] I've
found a really cool physics simulation application [3] that I'm really
excited to try with my students.
Thanks for the info.
-Charles Pax
[1] http://www.stepd.ca
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Kelvie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, it seems that the new FDOM got released yesterday (today?):
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FDOM#version__20080925
The md5sums seemd to be for different files. If you change the file name in
the md5sum, they check out
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A note on UI response times: 10ms should be the MAX response time,
anything that takes longer has just 10ms to let the user know it's
going to take longer (progress bar, hour glass, etc), otherwise the
reaction is disconnected from
the FR like a normal router box to Internet;
and
- I can even make phone calls and write SMS to my love
Thanks for sharing your experience. Can you write a little about what
distrobution you're using and what problems you had to overcome to get
things working the way you want?
-Charles
I'm using the new version of QTextended (was Qtopia) and I can't seem to
find any way to turn on my wireless. I see where I can turn on/off the
Bluetooth, but nothing for the wifi chip. Any advice?
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I tried that already, but I went back and tried it again. After erasing
everything I had done before and starting from scratch, it worked. Thanks.
-Charles
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Pax wrote:
I'm using the new version of QTextended
I'm looking for the package repository for QTExtended.
http://qtextended.org/packages/feed/4.4.1/neo does not seem to be there, but
this is what is in the package manager I flashed to my neo. Please advise.
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The most important piece of information for me was down there are the
bottom.
Weekly Engineering News:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Weekly_Engineering_News
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I'm sitting here playing with QtExtended right now and see that the call
forwarding settings has a phone number filled out already. The phone number
is 191742004 with the last two numbers being 98 (broke up the number, so
google doesn't index it). Does anyone know what this is about?
-Charles
of the
month club [2] bounty for whoever makes a plugin for conduit.
-Charles Pax
[1] http://www.conduit-project.org/
[2] http://www.beermonthclub.com/
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) touchscreen (no qwerty buttons) - freerunner, HTC Orbit, iphone
2) qwerty keyboard and tracker ball - blackberry curve
3) combination touchscreen plus qwerty - G1
I vote (1) touchscreen. It would also be nice to change the AUX
whether the user has 2007.2, Qtopia, 2008.x, or FSO installed.
Have you considered writing a plugin for Conduit [1]? It can synchronize
across a network two evolution data servers, so Conduit + USB networking
could make for a nice solution.
-Charles Pax
[1] http://www.conduit-project.org
will be the funniest thing I encounter all day.
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of funding can be slapped
together.
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[1] http://www.conduit-project.org/
On 12/3/08, Chris Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 9:05:42 pm arne anka wrote:
not everybody uses qtopia.
I didn't mean to imply that they did, just that it exists.
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Michele Renda michele.re...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello to all
I would like to know how do you like to read the phone number:
I try to explain: when we read a phone number we usually like to separe
it with some spaces or signs:
for example
Is there any place with daily builds of Android for the Freerunner? I've not
been able to compile it on my Ubuntu installation.
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I asked this question once before and it was discussed at length. It's the
hardware. It'll never happen. tears
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Marcel tan...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am Monday 26 January 2009 19:52:28 schrieb The Digital Pioneer:
So the question is, is this just
that (along with
some other measurable data) to more than one contact point.
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On 1/27/09, Fernando Martins ferna...@cmartins.nl wrote:
kris Occhipinti wrote:
I agree that it is a hardware limitation.
But, you never know what some one will come up.
One day someone may come up with an idea the rest of us never thought
about.
Yes, just for the folklore, this reminds
I live in Maplewood, NJ and have two Freerunners for $260 each. Each comes
with the phone in good condition, 512 MB micro SD card, and the pouch. I
will ship this in the U.S., but would rather a physical meeting. I will also
entertain alternative offers.
-Charles Pax
I have two Freerunners available in northern New Jersey. Let me know if
you're interested.
-Charles Pax
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