WikiReader Arduino shield (or generic serial touchscreen)

2012-11-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
I've gotten rather excited recently about the wikireader since they can be had for under $15, and this looks like an ideal platform to make a nice touchscreen interface for home automation and other things you might want to do with other open hardware like the Arduino. I started by hooking up the

Re: WikiReader Arduino shield (or generic serial touchscreen)

2012-11-05 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:46:44AM +0100, Christ van Willegen wrote: Hello Troy, On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: What I'd really like to be able to do though, is fix the simulator code so I can try out UI protocol development without having to load

Re: OpenMoko wiki needs to be set to read-only due to spam

2012-11-11 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 08:16:03AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 18:57 -0500, Harry Prevor wrote: Sorry for bringing this somewhat old topic up, but why did this have to be done? I can understand restricting editing to registered users only or adding CAPTCHAs to prevent

Re: GTA02 for sale on ebay, currently going for $20

2012-12-30 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Does this one have wifi? I have whatever version only had bluetooth. I'd be quite interested in both if I had a clear path how to run them without needing to have the battery (as an always-on touchscreen for home automation).. see http://androidthermostat.com/ On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:44:13PM

Wanted: GTAxx with Wifi and RS-232

2012-12-30 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
for the fpga ;) -- -- Troy Benjegerdes'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software hardware (http://q3u.be) stuff and not get

Re: Wanted: GTAxx with Wifi and RS-232

2013-01-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 11:23:38AM -0500, Ian Darwin wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 05:17:16PM +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: Hi Troy, On 30 December 2012 21:08, Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: I can do this with a GTA02 (wifi built-in, and USB-host mode), or *maybe* My

Fairphone: source code(cad?) repository?

2013-04-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
I changed the subject.. This is quite an interesting endeavor.. I'm hoping the fairphone group will engage the OpenMoko community as well as other open source hardware groups. I would like to see Fairphone start by sponsoring making CAD drawings for the OpenMoko Freerunner cases in OpenSCAD or

Re: Take a look at these stupid people...

2013-04-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
. -- Troy Benjegerdes'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software hardware (http://q3u.be) stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: Why do musicians compose

Re: fairphone??

2013-05-15 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Well, first you start with an existing phone design, where the production line is all tooled up, and you start with making sure the tantalum in the capacitors is only from conflict-free regions. That probably adds $2 per phone, and a whole lot of arm-twisting with suppliers (which is the really

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Afaik you can use it legally if you connect it directly to your own base station. If you connect it by shielded cable or if you place both in a big shielded box. I.e. if the spurious emissions stay below some defined level and don't disturb If you can demonstrate you know what you

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-29 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
> > and thus will void your device's (FCC/CE/...) > > approval > > The fact that a modem running your official firmware that falsely > believes itself to be quadband when running on triband-calibrated hw > VIOLATES the actual technical specs for the transmitted signals can > only mean that the

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-29 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
> On the note of "if only we could properly finance you", I actually > happen to know some very good recently retired ASIC design engineers, > and if there were "proper" financing available, I might be able to > convince them to come out of retirement and work on a libre LTE modem > ASIC project