bicycling with OpenMoko

[Timo Scheffler]

That's the way to go :)
I made something simple in about half an hour, using this [1] as
insipration.

Just get some Polymethylmethacrylat (PMMA - "Plexiglas" - marketing name
here), a spare socket from a removable light, a jigsaw and a heat gun :)

After you have something like this [2] you simply glue it on the socket
with much hot melt adhesive and there you go. :)

Btw. the hole in the Neo is great to tie it to the holder - just in case
some accident happens or so.

Timo

[1]: http://www.rabenfrost.net/openmoko/bikemount/stencil.svg
[2]: http://www.rabenfrost.net/openmoko/bikemount/100_5593.JPG

Al Johnson schrieb:
> On Thursday 23 April 2009, ivvmm wrote:
>> Hey, seen many messages about audio mapping the OSM with new app called
>> 'Dictator' in neighbour thread and so on.
>>
>> But the first question that rises here is how to mount the phone on your
>> bike?
> 
> I made a mount out of polymorph - a trade name for a low melt plastic that 
> feels similar to nylon, but becomes like putty at ~60C. Someone else routed a 
> recess in a sheet of chipboard. I saw pictures of one made from folded acrylic 
> sheet - very neat! Some have used commercial generic phone/pda holders. You 
> could even go the whole hog and get an Otterbox PDA case with bike mount for 
> all-weather ruggedness. At the other end of the scale someone was using a 
> cable tie through the hole in the phone and round the handlebars!
> 
> 
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