Further, Android already has the APIs to interface with the required instruments, and many of the high-end phones have most of them built in...
My 'Galaxy S 4G' has an accelerometer, attitude sensor, barometer, and magnetic compass. The Andoid OS makes these available to apps in a generic format, without any HW interfacing required. The only thing it doesn't have, is a way to read pitot pressure & true static air (a/o cockpit static). Combine those with the built in GPS, and you could get a reasonable 'backup' EFIS, although you'd still need an altimeter & ASI. On 2/19/2012 5:01 PM, Rich wrote: > While I used to be a computer hardware guy by degree and essentially haven't > practiced this century I do have a very good phd level software engineered > who work for me and we do collaborative development with a world reknown > lab at Purdue. I once voiced about changing over to windows based OS from > Linux on one of our instruments and the Purdue group looked at me like I had > 3 heads and said why move from a stable platform to an unstable MS platform? > My phd bought a motorola zoom and using android customizes and makes his own > apps effortlessly. If he had design criteria and was tasked with it, i have > no doubt he could design a stable EFIS system and not be hindered by Apples > development guidelines. Both the Android and Linux platforms allow for easily > implemented upgrades and customization and can be supported by independent > "shareware" type development groups globally. For the masses who don't know > how to type a URL in directly but rather always utilize google for their > portal onto the web, MS and Apple are perfect. > > For anyone who can think, there are better options. > > Rich Parker > Greenfield NH > Kr2s > Unfortunately most of my PIC time over the past 10 years had been "Passenger > In Coach" > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://mylist.net/private/krnet/ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
