Re: Barometric altimeter on 'future' Freerunner ?

2008-05-20 Thread Ortwin Regel
I can see exotic applications for this but certainly not enough to put it into the phone. If you need it, add it via USB host, that's what we've got it for. (Same is true for the railgun. ;) ) Ortwin On 5/18/08, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 May 2008, at 22:17, Philippe Guillebert

Re: Barometric altimeter on 'future' Freerunner ?

2008-05-18 Thread Heikki Sørum
Actually, implementing a railgun would probably be feasible as long as the projectile weight and powerload is taken into consideration. I'm not sure if the battery can handle multiple +1 gram projectiles though. And not to mention the need for a new chasis with space for a PCB with series of

Re: Barometric altimeter on 'future' Freerunner ?

2008-05-18 Thread Stroller
On 17 May 2008, at 22:17, Philippe Guillebert wrote: Matthias Schulze wrote: I am wondering about applications possible with the Freerunner (connected via usb) or later phone models, if a barometric altimeter would be included. Hi, Err, doesn't GPS give us a pretty accurate altitude already

Re: Barometric altimeter on 'future' Freerunner ?

2008-05-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 18 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GPS does give relatively accurate altitude/speed but it does have error and is nowhere near as accurate as a calibrate barometer (since an aircraft altimeter is just a barometer with a different face). Assuming someone has a data plan you can

Re: Barometric altimeter on 'future' Freerunner ?

2008-05-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 11:58 +0100, Al Johnson wrote: On Sunday 18 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GPS does give relatively accurate altitude/speed but it does have error and is nowhere near as accurate as a calibrate barometer (since an aircraft altimeter is just a barometer with a

Barometric altimeter on 'future' Freerunner ?

2008-05-17 Thread Matthias Schulze
Hi, I am wondering about applications possible with the Freerunner (connected via usb) or later phone models, if a barometric altimeter would be included. A potential barometric device might be this one. http://www.intersema.com/site/technical/ms5534.php (which seems to have a usb-version) At

Re: Barometric altimeter on 'future' Freerunner ?

2008-05-17 Thread Erland Lewin
2008/5/17 Matthias Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am wondering about applications possible with the Freerunner (connected via usb) or later phone models, if a barometric altimeter would be included. I like the idea. I was looking at Suunto watches a while back, and I think they had some way

Re: Barometric altimeter on 'future' Freerunner ?

2008-05-17 Thread Daniel Selinger
On Sat, 17 May 2008 17:21:20 +0200 Erland Lewin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A 3 axis magnetometer (compass) would also be a cool thing to have on the phone. I vote for a railgun ^^ sry : ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Barometric altimeter on 'future' Freerunner ?

2008-05-17 Thread Philippe Guillebert
Matthias Schulze wrote: I am wondering about applications possible with the Freerunner (connected via usb) or later phone models, if a barometric altimeter would be included. Hi, Err, doesn't GPS give us a pretty accurate altitude already ? Event if the precision is something like +/- 20