Re: LED and vibrator testing GUI

2008-10-30 Thread Natanael Arndt
Bastiaan Hovestreydt wrote: > Hi, > > sorry, but I couldn't stop Apache from trying to execute the script > other than renaming it, so its now here [1]. > > > Bastiaan > > [1] http://openmoko.hovestreydt.com/download/leds Hey Bastiaan, you can put the script in a .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz or simply

Re: LED and vibrator testing GUI

2008-10-30 Thread David Samblas
on and off for testing purposes. There's also has a slider to set the > > intensity of the vibrator. But since I don't anything about Python I > > only altered the mokoservices.py to fulfill my needs and tested it only > > under FDOM, so please be gentle :-) The script is avail

Re: LED and vibrator testing GUI

2008-10-29 Thread Bastiaan Hovestreydt
n't find > anything in the wiki... > I wrote a small Python script to quickly turn the LEDs of the Freerunner > on and off for testing purposes. There's also has a slider to set the > intensity of the vibrator. But since I don't anything about Python I > only altered t

LED and vibrator testing GUI

2008-10-29 Thread Bastiaan Hovestreydt
Hi, I don't know if somebody else did this already, but I didn't find anything in the wiki... I wrote a small Python script to quickly turn the LEDs of the Freerunner on and off for testing purposes. There's also has a slider to set the intensity of the vibrator. But since I don&#

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-03 Thread Javi Roman
or vibration modulation, so you can use pulses with low intensity and > > avoid waste of battery power. > > Nice! But why do identifier names mention GTA01? > >From vibrator point of view GTA01 vs GTA02 are the same, I guess. ___ OpenMoko

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-03 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:20:28 +0200, Javi Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Great, I submitted patches http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2007-September/000249.html for vibration modulation, so you can use pulses with low intensity and avoid waste of battery power. Nice! But w

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-03 Thread Javi Roman
On 10/3/07, Mark Arvidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a patch for neod that optionally buzzes the vibrator with each > keystroke (the same way the sound works). I haven't submitted it > because I'm trying to get the build to work top-to-bottom. > > Let me kn

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-02 Thread Mark Arvidson
I have a patch for neod that optionally buzzes the vibrator with each keystroke (the same way the sound works). I haven't submitted it because I'm trying to get the build to work top-to-bottom. Let me know if you would like to test it. --sagacis On 10/1/07, Jeffrey Thomas <[EM

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-02 Thread Steven **
On 10/1/07, Kamisamanou Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll agree with that. I actually like the vibration idea. I don't like > that the list is loaded with stuff like > "IR portRemote control applications Would be great to use openmoko as a > Hamony remote controller." > I don't quite see

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-02 Thread Paolo Vernazza
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: SIEMENS had shown such a display speaker at CeBIT 2002. Here a German blog entry with some photos and descriptions: http://www.usp-forum.de/prototypen-classics-limited-editions/15744-display-speaker-phone.html Yes, but a touch screen is more sinsible than thos

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-02 Thread Robin Paulson
On 02/10/2007, Sven Klomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'm not sure that's a good idea: is the screen designed to take such > > repeated vibrations, they're usually pretty sensitive? > Do you think this applies also for the build-in vibrator (give me another &

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-02 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
w-frequency sound you can feel it with your fingers. And it's much lower-power than using the vibrator. But I'm not sure how you attach a piezo to the screen; maybe the idea is to just vibrate the touchscreen film so as to have lower mass. i'm not sure that's a good idea: is t

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Sven Klomp
ace > > as the audio transducer, that way if you play a low-frequency sound > > you can feel it with your fingers. And it's much lower-power than > > using the vibrator. But I'm not sure how you attach a piezo to the > > screen; maybe the idea is to just vibrate the touc

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Kamisamanou Burgess
On 10/1/07, Uncle Kridley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kamisamanou Burgess wrote: > > I don't like that the list is loaded with stuff like > > "IR portRemote control applications Would be great to use openmoko as a > > Hamony remote controller." > > I don't quite see the necessity in running you

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Uncle Kridley
Kamisamanou Burgess wrote: > I don't like that the list is loaded with stuff like > "IR portRemote control applications Would be great to use openmoko as a > Hamony remote controller." > I don't quite see the necessity in running you tv with your cellphone I don't have much use for a fancy TV remo

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Kamisamanou Burgess
I'll agree with that. I actually like the vibration idea. I don't like that the list is loaded with stuff like "IR portRemote control applications Would be great to use openmoko as a Hamony remote controller." I don't quite see the necessity in running you tv with your cellphone On 10/1/07, Jeffre

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Robin Paulson
On 02/10/2007, Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea from the Jackito sounded good to me - use the screen surface > as the audio transducer, that way if you play a low-frequency sound > you can feel it with your fingers. And it's much lower-power than > using

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Shawn Rutledge
The idea from the Jackito sounded good to me - use the screen surface as the audio transducer, that way if you play a low-frequency sound you can feel it with your fingers. And it's much lower-power than using the vibrator. But I'm not sure how you attach a piezo to the screen; maybe t

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Jeffrey Thomas
> It seems that most the things on this wish list are entirely unnecessary > and battery consuming I am not sure what else is on the list, but I think this (vibration feedback) is a pretty useful feature, especially for non-geeks. Remember, a lot of think a GUI on a computer isn't needed, but ho

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Kamisamanou Burgess
It seems that most the things on this wish list are entirely unnecessary and battery consuming On 10/1/07, Sven Klomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > does anyone know, how power consuming the build-in vibrator of the neo is? > Today, I held the Motorola Razr 2 (V8) in

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Pius A. Uzamere II
PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > does anyone know, how power consuming the build-in vibrator of the neo > > is? > > Today, I held the Motorola Razr 2 (V8) in my hands and I'm very > > impressed of > > the feeling of tactile feedbac

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Jeffrey Thomas
funny spam On Monday 01 October 2007 04:41:38 pm Tim Shannon wrote: > I don't know about that rest of you guys, but with this email title, I > assumed this was spam. > > On 10/1/07, Sven Klomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > does anyone know,

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Tim Shannon
I don't know about that rest of you guys, but with this email title, I assumed this was spam. On 10/1/07, Sven Klomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > does anyone know, how power consuming the build-in vibrator of the neo is? > Today, I held the Motorola Razr 2 (V8

Vibrator

2007-10-01 Thread Sven Klomp
Hi, does anyone know, how power consuming the build-in vibrator of the neo is? Today, I held the Motorola Razr 2 (V8) in my hands and I'm very impressed of the feeling of tactile feedback of the screen buttons. I found this approach already on the wishlist (http://wiki.openmoko.org

Re: Idea: Vibrator as keyboard click

2006-12-30 Thread Paul Bohme
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: That's a nice idea. I wonder a) whether the softest movement we can do with the vibrator that would still not be interfering with operating the device and b) how much power such an option would suck. Was wondering this (b) myself, but doesn'

Re: Idea: Vibrator as keyboard click

2006-12-30 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Ole Tange wrote: > The Neo only has a touch screen which makes it hard to feel if a key > is pressed. A click sound can help, but sound can be annoying to your > environment. Visual feedback helps, but it would be nice to feel it > too. > You could have the phone move slightly if

RE: Idea: Vibrator as keyboard click

2006-12-29 Thread David Schlesinger
>If you knowingly infringed the patent damages will rise (I seem to >remember with a factor of 2). Wilful patent infringement is _treble_ damages under US law. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/ma

Re: Idea: Vibrator as keyboard click

2006-12-29 Thread Ole Tange
ironment. Visual feedback helps, but it would be nice to feel it > too. > > You could have the phone move slightly if the vibrator is activated > for a very short time (e.g. 50 ms). This would give a silent, yet > destinctive feedback. Very cool idea!...but I think I remember hea

Re: Idea: Vibrator as keyboard click

2006-12-28 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
it > too. > > You could have the phone move slightly if the vibrator is activated > for a very short time (e.g. 50 ms). This would give a silent, yet > destinctive feedback. Very cool idea!...but I think I remember hearing from somebody that this is

Idea: Vibrator as keyboard click

2006-12-27 Thread Ole Tange
The Neo only has a touch screen which makes it hard to feel if a key is pressed. A click sound can help, but sound can be annoying to your environment. Visual feedback helps, but it would be nice to feel it too. You could have the phone move slightly if the vibrator is activated for a very short

Idea: Vibrator ring tones

2006-12-20 Thread Ole Tange
ter to fetch the train - time (1/4 1/2 3/4 1/1 hour signal) - reached a tagged location - a communication partner becomes reachable I thought I already had mentioned an old idea of mine (http://ole.tange.dk/projekter/kontroversielt/patent-ideer.html 2004-11-26): Vibrator ring tones, but I could no

Re: Idea: Optimal noisy vibrator

2006-12-17 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Ole! On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Ole Tange wrote: > When the phone is lying on a table it may be interesting to get the > most noise from the vibrator as possible. By changing the frequency of > the vibrator and analysing the sound level on the microphone the phone > can determine wi

Re: Idea: Optimal noisy vibrator

2006-12-16 Thread Richard Franks
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 ___

Re: Idea: Optimal noisy vibrator

2006-12-16 Thread Colin Curtin
10:31 AM, Adam Goode wrote: Ole Tange wrote: When the phone is lying on a table it may be interesting to get the most noise from the vibrator as possible. By changing the frequency of the vibrator and analysing the sound level on the microphone the phone can determine with frequency is most noisy

Re: Idea: Optimal noisy vibrator

2006-12-16 Thread Igor Foox
On 16-Dec-06, at 10:31 AM, Adam Goode wrote: Ole Tange wrote: When the phone is lying on a table it may be interesting to get the most noise from the vibrator as possible. By changing the frequency of the vibrator and analysing the sound level on the microphone the phone can determine

Re: Idea: Optimal noisy vibrator

2006-12-16 Thread Adam Goode
Ole Tange wrote: > When the phone is lying on a table it may be interesting to get the > most noise from the vibrator as possible. By changing the frequency of > the vibrator and analysing the sound level on the microphone the phone > can determine with frequency is most noisy for

Re: Idea: Optimal noisy vibrator

2006-12-15 Thread Shawn Rutledge
The intention of a vibrator is to silently alert you when the phone is in your pocket. I think the sound of vibration on a table is an awful horrible sound, and often results in the phone vibrating itself off the table too. On 12/15/06, Ole Tange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When the ph

Re: Idea: Optimal noisy vibrator

2006-12-15 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 15 December 2006 17:00, Ole Tange wrote: > When the phone is lying on a table it may be interesting to get the > most noise from the vibrator as possible. By changing the frequency of > the vibrator and analysing the sound level on the microphone the phone > can determine wi

Idea: Optimal noisy vibrator

2006-12-15 Thread Ole Tange
When the phone is lying on a table it may be interesting to get the most noise from the vibrator as possible. By changing the frequency of the vibrator and analysing the sound level on the microphone the phone can determine with frequency is most noisy for vibrating on this surface. /Ole