On 8/31/07, Mike Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Where on any official blogs/websites have you seen the OpenMoko team
> or FIC say that they were making an "iPhone killer" or "anti-iPhone?"
It looks like Apple have beaten FIC to the punch anyway:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/70
Heh! It's an Apple fan site, so you can't expect any attempt at
objectivity - as the forum following up the article shows:
http://roughlydrafted.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=290&page=1#Item_0
Given that Apple fans already have the phone of their dreams, it is
quite the compliment that they
On 3/7/07, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is interesting to see the larger ambitions of the project. It might
also help to expand upon what types of devices could be constructed with
this logic, in addition to neo1973. I'm thinking remotes, media players,
watches, etc...
What if y
I found the section on emergence/Neoforms _very_ interesting - I've
recently been expanding upon this (
http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Ideas/ConceptualFramework )
from which I've going down similar lines of thought - do you have more
ideas about Neoforms?
Richard
On 3/1/07, Sean Moss-
On 2/14/07, Piotr Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
and so bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/
and also:
svn co http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk trunk
:-)
Richard
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On 2/14/07, Tomasz Zielinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It looks like http://wiki.openmoko.org is open to public :-)
Neat!
http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/
is now open too - should be enough info to chew upon for a while :-)
Richard
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On 2/5/07, denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello!
Yeah I know that. But don't you think it would be useful to offer interested
users, that heart from others something about the phone, more easy to access
content?
Most of the official knowledge/content is already on the openmoko
website and th
I do not think that we should encourage or advocate considerate
subscribers to leave, due to the actions of inconsiderate users.
Richard
On 1/28/07, Declan Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can also unsubscribe from the list @
https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community :)
Oth
On 1/27/07, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't see a legal case being made out of this.
Right, but better to protect ourselves. Also, companies, like
FIC/OpenMoko have to take every precaution. So, if we want our content
included, we need to be cautious as well.
Agreed - but I
On 1/28/07, Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BSDL contains an inherent self-destruct gene, GPL contains a built-in
propagation gene.
And Non-Free Software contains a built-in propagation gene which
cannot evolve its medium (technology) as quickly as the license-gene
for Free Software can.
But
On 1/27/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
More importantly (and very relevantly to this list) you can't compete for
consumers on a basis of "Not as good, but _more free_." If completely open
phones are going to achieve any sort of dominance, then the same kind of
work will have to
On 1/27/07, Renaissance Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well you managed to miss the point of my *metaphor* (not straw man),
even though I spelt it out for you:
"The point is real "freedom" is measured on a "whole picture" basis,
not on an individual basis."
A metaphor is simply a linguistic mod
of that work if we go that route.
Richard
On 1/27/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/27/07 3:26 AM, "Jon Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 16:21 +0100, Harald Welte wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:29:47AM -050
> Example. Instead of a calendar app just muting the phone when in a
> meeting (nice feature) it would activate a profile (maybe "silent" or
> "meeting"). Other apps could also use those profiles. For instance a
> GPS location aware app could know to use the same "silent" or "meeting"
> profile
IANAL (or a hobby lawyer!) but I think if someone has contributed to
the unofficial wiki without checking for a license, and without
specifying their own license... then there is no copyright issue as
the contributors have implicitly put their words into the public
domain?
At least, I think it wo
On 1/24/07, Duncan Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What about the multi-point touch screen? It's wonderful, but
doesn't Apple have a patent on that?
I would have thought that whoever owns copyrights for Star Trek should
win prior art for multitouch - the software UI for the transporter
conso
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 22:58 +0100, Marc Verwerft wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Probably, you're on your own right now. If I were you, I wouldn't make
> a sourceforge project yet as in the announcement of Sean he mentioned
> this:
> * http://projects.openmoko.org/ -- for user-contributed projects <--
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 19:59 +, Declan Naughton wrote:
> "Threat to unregister" I never knew you considered me to be such a
> valuable asset. I posted pretty much exclusively to the GNU/Linux or
> Linux related threads.
The point of a community is that everyone has something to contribute.
>
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 19:08 +, Declan Naughton wrote:
> > The "Free Your Phone" post was perhaps the most interesting announcement
> > we've had yet - Sean thinks we're going to be building the foundation
> > for Ubiquitous Computing - I think he's right, but this positive message
> > was compl
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 18:19 +, Declan Naughton wrote:
> On 1/24/07, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How about we let our Agenda be the cool technology and innovation
> > instead?
>
> So freedom has nothing to do with it?
>
> I wouldn't be
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 18:16 +, Al Johnson wrote:
> Getting a flash-capable browser will be another problem entirely...
I wondered about that before posting, but I found this link, so it looks
like options may be available.. although I gather the standard approach
is to have the manufacturer ne
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 11:33 -0600, Paul Jimenez wrote:
> How about a locked-down 'kid version' of the UI with touchable pictures for
> 'mommy', 'daddy', etc ? Maybe not even labelled, but just the pictures?
Nice idea - I see where you're going with this, not making it too
complex.. for slightly
The distinction may become more relevant if you get hit with a cease and
desist - "YouTube has blocked a small company from making YouTube videos
available on mobile phones":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/23/youtube_blocks_mobile_video_encoder/
If we have a browser with Flash support capab
On 1/24/07 6:11 AM, "Dave Crossland" wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> On 23/01/07, David Ford wrote:
>> You must be reading a different link. Sean's email most clearly states
>> "in the form of a user's manual that will give credit to GNU." He also
>> clearly stated "We'll just call it OpenMoko."
>
> Co
ses:
1) GPS location looks like I'm a few minutes from the office on a
workday - start coffee machine through a relay.
2) Need Insurance $$$ - start coffee machine through a relay, repeat
Richard
Richard Franks wrote:
> So when I walk into my office in the morning my computer wakes the
So when I walk into my office in the morning my computer wakes the
monitor and logs in, opens up a browser with slashdot, etc.
So when I walk towards my house at night, my computer is already cuing
up some music for me.
Detection could be via GPS/data connection, but in many workplaces,
bluetoot
Will we have something like this? Do we want something like this?
It could be useful for contact-sharing, authentication, access to
services on the OpenMoko site, keeping track of gaming friends,
referencing file/data resources on the users home 'or otherwise'
machine etc.
Richard
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On 1/23/07, Dean Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The big problem with a lot of these applications being suggested is it will
require back end servers to store the data.
I'm yet to see anyone suggest "SAAS" pricing models for FIC applications on
a monthly/annual basis or is everyone on this l
On 1/23/07, Oleg L. Sverdlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Videoblogging has its niche, but how about a small application that
remembers where you've been during a day , and how long; and then visualizes
everything in form of nice coloured curves, and publishes to your blog?
I'm definitely lookin
There seems to be a bit of confusion about the references to "2
additional buttons", and how they may be used.
1) Are they simple microswitches, or something else?
2) Will they have hard-wired functionality?
3) Does OpenMoko have standardised usage models for them - e.g.
power/profile selection?
On 1/22/07, Derek Pressnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On a different (but related) track, I've always wanted to have a web
browser that was capable of executing local cgi scripts without the
need for client-side http server.
Pah! Internet Explorer has had that for *ages*.
But for non-windows,
On 1/22/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It simply never ends, does it?
One can hope :-)
Next time I get another argument on this subject in my inbox, I'm
going to simply email this back-to-sender, not the entire list:
http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Debate-GNU-Linux
On 1/21/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is the rationale behind the exclusion of WiFi?
The long and short of it is that there's no sufficiently low-power WiFi chip
available which has an open driver, or at least there wasn't when the
hardware design got nailed down. It's t
On 1/20/07, Renaissance Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And the more people who are aware of Free Software (as opposed to simply
open source software) and its significance, the more likely Free Software
will prevail and people will continue to benefit from it.
I agree, and I agree that this wou
On 1/20/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was requesting that FIC's full title for the system replaces "Linux"
with "GNU/Linux" for the good and clear reasons that we are familiar
with, if it includes that name at all.
"Linux" as a marketing phrase is very well-established, "GNU/L
On 1/18/07, Bryan Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The community archives online are not easily searchable and not the
> best way to get a definite answer.
Gmane to the rescue!
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.openmoko.general
Nice! Thanks for the link!
Richard
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On 1/18/07, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
It seems google.com is down, since a a great deal of topics posted to the list
can be
answered by spending 2 minutes google-ing.
Please, do some research before wasting our time.
If there was a central source for up-to-date information pub
On 1/18/07, Renaissance Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> P.S.: Thanks for finally realising that it is better if you drop
> the debate about including wifi in the first generation device. Be
> it whether the fundamental point people having been trying to make
> to you, got through, or because you
On 1/18/07, Sven Neuhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While you're at it, please include some kind of hardware graphics
acceleration to speed up video playback and maybe allow cooler games...
I quite like the idea of the display being in system memory for games
- quick pixel read times allow for
On 1/18/07, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe too many cooks spoil the stew, which is often a
problem in open source, in my opinion. Its also often also a problem inside
corporate development efforts. When there is no clear and absolute
leadership, product design suffers. This is
On 1/18/07, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now I am not saying open source isnt great. But from your *average* users
perspective I would love to hear the advantages of the open source for these
devices. Is this just a geek issue? It seems like most of the apps described
on this list cou
On 1/17/07, Renaissance Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The reason is neither of them have VoIP via WiFi.
Who do I talk to ask them to include WiFi connectivity with the
OpenMoko? I'll sell my body parts to get hold of such a device.
Why does no organisation (even Apple) seem to get it that the
On 1/17/07, Stuart Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a games programming student I see alot of potential for games on the
touchscreen phones. Although there are no buttons (or none we can really
use for the games)
Assuming that the placement of the two buttons is suitable.. unless
they both h
On 1/16/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unless your game can be controlled with a touchscreen, you won't like it as
gaming device.
I've got a mockup I did for a Gravity Power port I've been putting off
for too long:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/359950380/
With
On 1/13/07, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyhow, I've been thinking about it, and at 9600 baud or whatever it
wouldn't be worth bothering with. I think what I'll do is build a
little pocket sized battery powered usb hub with an attached usb
802.11 dongle. While I'm at it, I'll probably put a
On 1/11/07, el jefe delito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/11/07, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a year after release we will probably have two things:
> 2) A Neo (released or in the works) which can provide all the 'eye
> candy' decoration to
On 1/10/07, Sven Neuhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Richard Franks wrote:
> In terms of retro gaming though, it's the perfect platform for 2d games:
Unfortunately, in the last 4 years of using a Sony Ericsson P800 phone I've
learned that there're only a handful of decent
On 1/10/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/01/07, Attila Csipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Conceptually very similar to the FIC1973, with of course the
> added Apple candy and design team efforts.
I wonder how the FIC1973's graphics capabilities will compare - all
the slick XGL
On 1/7/07, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wrote a game in turbo pascal a decade or two ago.
if I wanted to rewrite it for openmoko, which toolkit
etc. would I use for the graphics and sound effects?
I'd use SDL if/when available, if not.. then there are plenty of
sound/image l
On 12/27/06, Marcus Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Most likely this battle will be settled by Global Locate paying license
fees to SiRF.
[...snip...]
communicate to GL that open specs are indeed a selling point.
It seems a bit unreasonable to suggest that a company who are 'most
likely' goin
Did I miss something, or are tempers actually flaring here?
It's a phone, folks.
But let us not make things more difficult and ugly by being immature
and throwing around phrases like "arrogant jerks", and antagonising
the very companies working with FIC on this project in the first
place. I don'
On 12/15/06, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did I alread mentioned the idea to have a capacitor parallel
to the battery? So the Neo1973 cold call the police even without
battery and the simcard and transmitt the coordinates of the phone.
***g*** (of course with black screen...)
Well..
Ses. I find that OS X gives me
by far the greatest productivity of all systems pretty much regardless
of the task. And at the end of the day that is what counts for me, not
the degree to which I can *fiddle* with a system.
Just wanted to set that straight (and get that flame-war started ;-)
-- Terren
If it's anything like this:
http://www.mpja.com/category/DC__Motors/6mm_CELL_PHONE_VIBRATOR_MOTOR_16053_MD.asp
then it could be possible to monitor any current generated from the DC
motor as a result of the phone being moved (along certain axis').
Richard
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On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 21:00 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> A phone that sends an sms to itself every week, how is that going to stop a
> thief that has
> my phone + simcard?
Hmm. You are absolutely correct - security through obscurity + sneaky
tricks aren't going to work medium-long term. Imagine you
Salve Rob!
On 12/15/06, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And who think know - "nice" - but this will no "killer application for
a phone" does still haven't understood that beside good core phone
function there will be no single "killer application" for a smartphone.
smartphone = mobil PC
On 12/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"For dessert I'd like the apple pie with no whipped cream"
"I'm sorry sir, we're all out of whipped cream"
"Very well. I'll have it without ice cream"
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On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 16:08 +, Ole Tange wrote:
> Apparently the Neo may be capable of transmitting ultrasound (20 KHz -
> around 45 KHz). If the Neo is also capable of receiving this (using
> the microphone) then we should be able to transmit data that way. This
> may be useful for close range
On 12/15/06, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This mailinglist and #openmoko, but I was protesting against presenting
things as actual facts, when things aren't sure.
Dragging this back on-topic, you bring up an interesting example.
Creating an ethic such as "information should be free", an
On 12/15/06, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Oleg Gusev schreef:
> I think any reasonable person understands that wifi/BT was left out
Bluetooth left out? That's not what I heard.
Really!? Cool! Where did you not hear it?
Richard
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On 12/14/06, Alessandro Iurlano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was just thinking about the lack of a wiki at the actual moment and the
waste of thoughts and energy that will go lost because nobody will probably look
at all the archived mails in the list again.
On the other hand, the list as it is
On 12/10/06, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(I also am sad to see a very logical and well reasoned position being
smeared as 'religious' all the time, but I'm about to go on holiday
and will reply to all that in January :-)
I think I hold the dubious honour of first using the word 'r
Would we be violating the license by redistributing this data, or
additional data based entirely upon that data source to other Neo1973
units?
I'm wondering about the possibility of leveraging off the fact that
all Neo1973 units should have a very unified idea of the current time
to increase the
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 21:54 +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> I dont think you cound go round and stick a FPGA into Neo1973 at this point
> of
> time, either.
I took the FPGA stuff as Neo ideas - is doesn't seem that
far-fetched to imagine a future model with an expansion port for a bunch
of
On 12/12/06, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Doing distance messuring with ultrasonic?
;))
40kHz example:
http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/audiovis/Distance28015.pdf
Interesting article... 3.3m ping is not insignificant, especially in
dark/smoke-filled environments. I remember doin
Salve Rob!
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:51 +0100, Robert Michel wrote:
> Sorry, I'm not a electral engineer (student). So how hardware things are
> solved will never be my excellence
Please don't feel the need to disclaim your experience - those of us who
went to university were all students once too
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:56 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Robert Michel schreef:
>
> > PS: Again, it seems that an FPGA between the I/O connectors
> > and the other chips would encrease the power of the Neo1973,
> > e.g. the FPGA could switc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Buzz
If the speaker can produce 17.4kHz then it could be sufficiently
annoying to any potential 'teenage hooligan' running off with your
phone.
Add in some remote-access features, such as lock-down, sync/wipe local
data, gps/voice recording+uploading.. if everyt
Hurrah Robert!
I'm not an audio engineerologist, however a quick read of the
datasheet shows input/output rates of up to 96kHz.. so the theoretical
highest frequency at that level would be 48kHz.. meaning there may be
room in the non-audible spectrum for comms depending upon the
sensitivity of th
On 12/11/06, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 10 bonus points if it sounds like R2D2.
efficient data transmission via audio mustn't sound well
for the user - DTMF for transmitting your phonenumber
would be acceptable, but the other modulations?
Heh! That idea was intended just for h
Flash).
>
> I think it's interesting to make a more abstract project, I mean unified
> wifi/bluetooth/etc proxy for various platforms. Just another example: Neo1973
> <=> Bluetooth <=> Desktop PC <=> Internet. And so on.
>
> Best wishes,
> Alex
>
ss at the approximate bandwidth though ;-)
Richard
On 11/29/06, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/29/06, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh wait. You mean hosting the HTML file(s) on the Neo? By pointing the
> PC browser to the HTML file on the Neo's
On 12/9/06, Oleg Gusev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have an original Zaurus 5500, and it still does not support SD/SDIO
in the 2.6 kernel. An experienced kernel hacker can easily write a driver,
because the card is on a simple SPI port.
It was not done to protest against the decision made by Sha
Hi Dave,
On 12/9/06, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought this blogpost from the FSFE might be of interest to the list
and also relates to the question I asked earlier about how the
openmoko relates to the FSF philosophy:
OpenMoko = Open Mobile Communications Platform
Neo1973 =
On 12/9/06, Paul Bohme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Would like to avoid similar again, if at all possible. Loading firmware
into a device is no big deal - it doesn't link into any other code so
might as well be any random opaque blob of data. Having to deal with
the contortions involved when one
We had some major headaches with this - mostly because legacy code
written for 32bit architectures tends to make silly assumptions that
pointers can be cast to integers. But there also a number of tricky
cases where it wasn't immediately obvious that the datatype
discrepancy was the root cause.
A
I haven't misposted again. No, really.
Inspired by Christopher Heinys thrust, I started wondering about what
actual 'average' consumers want. It's my impression that the
BlackBerry currently holds the crown for the "if I wanted a phone that
could also do XYZ":
http://www.google.com/trends?q=blac
Salve Rob!
On 12/7/06, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
?cologne
I will go to cologne by train on 10.12.2006 14:12h from Aachen central
trainstaion.
?cologne.*
Have affair at 19:00, don't tell wife or bishop.
The issues I see are:
1) The feasibility of entering all of your day-to-day
On 12/5/06, Jeff Andros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/5/06, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I started coding this beast last night. Not much to see, but if it
> garners any interest I'll chuck up on Sourceforge. There are still
> plenty of things to be de
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 14:15 +0100, Markus Stehr wrote:
> Argh, why does it always have to be some obscure object orientated
> language?
C/C++/Java are obscure?
> I would rather like to see some procedual Basic, like FreeBasic or
> QBasic, on this little buddy.
I'd argue strongly against this.
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 08:38 -0800, Christopher Heiny wrote:
> Part of my day job is to nudge (or sometimes thump) the fantasies of my own
> team back into line with reality. It looks like I let that leak over into
> OpenMoko, too. I'll have to be more careful about that in the future.
Not at
s me think that "Beast" is a
better name than not having a name, but it's all open.
On 12/4/06, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been thinking a lot more about this idea over the weekend:
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000512.htm
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:50 +0100, Dennis Günnewig wrote:
> Hey @all,
>
> at the company we use Lotus Notes. As I'm really interested in using the
> neo for business and private purposes two things are important for me.
>
> 1)A software packet which enables me to synchronize my calendar, contac
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 19:37 +0100, Robert Michel wrote:
> Explain me - what would be the long term benefit to run OpenMoko on a
> THC device in the next month?
I'm not a corporate marketing-ologist, but surely the more hardware
platforms OpenMoko runs on, the more credibility it will receive.
>
Will the OpenMoko repository contain drivers for all supported
platforms, or will the drivers be distributed and bundled by the
hardware vendor into a specific SDK - in this case FIC for the Neo1973?
Or is that still to be decided?
Richard
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OpenMoko
I've been thinking a lot more about this idea over the weekend:
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000512.html
But it's probably time to present these ideas a bit more
comprehensively to elicit constructive feedback.
Terminology:
transform - takes input, processes, outpu
Hi Koen,
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 10:59 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Software can't magically fix a slow framebuffer. Last I heard you couldn't
> trigger full
> redraws at 20fps on the s3c2410fb, so all the decoding power in the world
> couldn't get you
> fluid playback if you can't get it on the scre
On 12/3/06, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 03/12/06, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm happy to support open source development where appropriate. I
> think in this case though, reverse engineering a proprietary driver
> for something as si
I'm happy to support open source development where appropriate. I
think in this case though, reverse engineering a proprietary driver
for something as single-purpose as a GPS chip is overly aggressive.
And to what end? If it is without the cooperation of Global Locate,
then surely they can switch
On 11/30/06, Tim Newsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the problem with doing it this way, is you'd need some way to notify
> each application of all the sensors available at runtime, or you
> re-compile each availability sensitive app for every combination of
> sensors (having that many versions o
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:47 -0700, Jeff Andros wrote:
> ok, I was thinking more like /dev/random pulls seeds from all the
> devices registered with it, or the way that mythtv detects commercials
> based on plugins, create a virtual device that returns a read of 0-255
> based on the probability th
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:51 -0700, Jeff Andros wrote:
>
> It almost sounds like we should make a plugin framework for
> availability detection, with plugins for the light sensor, PIM
> calendar, microphone (can we set an interrupt if the ADC receives a
> level greater than X?) and so on and so fort
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 20:20 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > any spare(ish) cycles you have I'd vote for using them to put up a
> > basic community wiki - makes it easier for project ideas to get off the
> > ground when there's a common source for information, not least with
> > relation to the abili
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:00 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
> On 11/30/06 6:12 AM, "Richard Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Unless it already exists, I'll do some research tonight.. anyone
> > interested in joining the coding/design effort?
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On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:48 +0100, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
> Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
> > > On 11/30/06 3:32 AM, "Robert Michel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> But this light sensor could also combined with localisation, time and
> >> >> provile (or movement sensor)
> >> >> E.g. when I'm at home and
On 11/29/06, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey! This is the first project idea which we (the community) could
> > start today and complete even before the first Neo1973 ships,
without
> > access to the SDK or any other data. Booya.
>
> That isn't true. You can start coding a a pure gtk+
On 11/29/06, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh wait. You mean hosting the HTML file(s) on the Neo? By pointing the
PC browser to the HTML file on the Neo's memory, you could in effect
set up a meta-refresh every second or so, or use AJAX to read files
(requests) from the N
On 11/29/06, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
*IDEA*
Wait, because these systems support USB mass storage device - couldn't
we use a normal browser and on download to a FIFO file and an upload to
a FIFO to FIFOs on our server? So no local installation, nor Java
support (I would
Skip all that, and go straight to monitoring EEG brain signals - one
sensor (array), all input handled. Fashion it into a nice hat.
Actually, no.. all I really want to do with the Neo1973 is get a
ring-tone to do the "beep beep boop bop" from CTU/24.
Now I think of it though.. AGPS/GPRS... urban
On 11/28/06, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
however for all the towns and
cities I've lived in, the actual street layouts and names don't change
terribly often.
Let me qualify this rather anecdotal statement.. I don't think
street-layout/renumberings change of
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