Yep am experimenting with Snappy on Rpi, specifically for drones. Look forward to it landing on the phone!
To use the phone as a robot brain need a GPIO breakout board though for connecting to external sensors, gps, pwm speed controllers etc - was wondering if anyone has hacked on this already. Cheers Jouni On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Oliver Grawert <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 17.06.2015, 10:43 +0100 schrieb Jouni Helminen: > > Was reading the Hacker News commentary on the new RPi case, and many > > people were wondering why not use phones for things we use RPi for, > > since phones are very cheap now and have a lot of extra hardware built > > in - sensors, display, connectivity. > > > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727317 > > > > Has anyone done any experimentation ie. adding a USB GPIO breakout > > board to an Ubuntu phone? using something like > > > > https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12633 > > > > or > > > > > http://circuitcellar.com/cc-blog/turn-your-android-device-into-an-application-tool/ > > > > you should take a look at ubuntu snappy then ... it will replace the > underlying system on the phone within the next few months (latest by > april release, likely a lot earlier) and is already used for drones and > robotics today ... with that re-using a phone as a "robot-brain" will be > a breeze ... > > ciao > oli > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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