homebrew hardware and WiFi

2007-02-18 Thread adrian cockcroft
Hello, I'm new to the OpenMoko lists, but I'm a member of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club that started up last year at http://www.hbmobile.org . We have been working towards our own family of hardware designs, based mostly on http://www.gumstix.com processor boards, and will be

Re: homebrew hardware and WiFi

2007-02-18 Thread Ian Stirling
adrian cockcroft wrote: Hello, I'm new to the OpenMoko lists, but I'm a member of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club that started up last year at http://www.hbmobile.org . We have been working towards our own family big snip There is a WiFi and Bluetooth combo card available here

Re: homebrew hardware and WiFi

2007-02-18 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
One other hope I have is that the RF chip designers will start making more flexible radios. Does a GSM/wifi/bluetooth/GPS phone really need 4 different RF chips and associated antennas and cabling? Using software-radio techniques it might be possible to combine some of the hardware. GPS

Re: homebrew hardware and WiFi

2007-02-18 Thread adrian cockcroft
You can already get the Telit GM862-GPS GSM Modem w/ GPS, along with the Bluetooth/WiFi module, thats four networks in two packages, with open specs and existing project plans for Linux. the fun part is going to be figuring out how to lay out four antennas in a small package. The OpenCell

Re: homebrew hardware and WiFi

2007-02-18 Thread matthieu castet
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One other hope I have is that the RF chip designers will start making more flexible radios. Does a GSM/wifi/bluetooth/GPS phone really need 4 different RF chips and associated antennas and cabling? Using software-radio techniques it might

Re: homebrew hardware and WiFi

2007-02-18 Thread michael
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, adrian cockcroft wrote: Hello, I'm new to the OpenMoko lists, but I'm a member of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club that started up last year at http://www.hbmobile.org . We have been working towards our own family of hardware designs, based mostly on