OT:Advances on Ben NanoNote and other things (was Re: [reader] Wikireader received)

steven mosher moshersteven at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 23:50:42 CEST 2009


 Thanks David I saw your name and just hit reply. Lets take this to the
www.qi-hardware.com list.



On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:29 PM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez <
david at tuxbrain.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve!
> Firts of all and to not distort the beautifull "first blood" thread of
> Doug I have started it in a another one and also maked it OT due in
> spite is interesting due is about open hardware is not strictly
> Openmoko related. So after the first intro here we go
>
> Yes I have seen this , maybe I'm too much quiet in the Qi Hardware
> List[1], but I read almost all messages there even those I don't
> understand about kernel things :), and of course the blog posts, and
> hey! I also start translating your(our) wiki to spanish :P. So be sure
> I have more than an eye there.
>
> Having GTK over Frambuffer, also see the benchmark , cool! is a great
> great news, you have open a lot of doors for port already existing
> apps and to do new developments.Now next step is have QT over
> Framebuffer too on Openwrt, (if it's not already done yet) and
> possibilities will just multiply :)
>
> Just a point about the envy, is not just to have a wikipedia in your
> pocket, is for have the device itself :) long time waiting that
> project B thing , yes geeks have a part of collector , and there is no
> much commercialized open gadgets out there so any new one is an object
> of desire.
>
> By the way I'm in touch with Wolfgang and Mirko to have one of those
> first Ben NanoNote and start playing with it and spread the results of
> the playing to the world, and yes a color/audio version of  The
> Hitchhiker's Gu... sorry  Wikipedia will be a cool cool thing :)
>
> A lot of beautiful devices will arrive at Tuxbrain soon, at least as
> sample, Wikireader, Ben Nanonote, Always Innovating Touchbook,
> Openpandora, and now I have in my hands an awesome Sharp
> Netwalker(some experiments along with Neo Freerunner soon :P), I wish
> having three or four more hands to handle all this beauties at once :)
> but at least they have the size to wear them everywhere. But I have no
> patience to wait for them without feeling greats amounts of envy when
> I saw other has the luck to play with them first. I'ts not so bad :)
> this ugly feeling disappears once the courier knocks my door :) and is
> fully forgotten once I start  sending them to other envious and
> anxious geeks to calm their hungry of hacking.
>
> Steve,  I don't know if your are aware about the om-showroom
> project[2][3], it stills on early stages but I hope in short I will
> have a test site up an running  , I was thinking , due NanoNote is
> based on Openwrt that is based on ipk packages as is SHR, do a
> nanonote-showroom will not be so much difficult. I you think is a good
> Idea I can express it in the qi-hardware list. Just same
> "requeriments" as om-showroom, Tuxbrain logo as sponsor, and some
> "classic" banner about Tuxbrain products at the bottom ;P,
>
> Love to talk with you again on this list, man ;)
> [1]http://lists.qi-hardware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/developer
> [2]http://www.tuxbrain.com/en/content/om-showroom-something-show
>
>
> David Reyes Samblas Martinez
> http://www.tuxbrain.com
> Open ultraportable & embedded solutions
> Openmoko, Openpandora,  Arduino
> Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!!
>
>
>
>
> 2009/10/19 steven mosher <moshersteven at gmail.com>:
> >  Hi david,
> >    Did you see this:
> > http://www.qi-hardware.com/2009/10/17/recent-developments/
> >   I've got some units in. It took a couple days but we have a browser on
> the
> > device and wikipedia.
> >   It was easy when we just decided to use what the open source community
> had
> > already created.
> >   Looking forward to doing other wikimedia on the device since we have
> color
> > and audio. drop me a line
> > Steve
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:13 PM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez
> > <david at tuxbrain.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 2009/10/19 Doug Jones <dj6mf at frombob.to>:
> >> > I ordered it a few hours after Sean's announcement.
> >> >
> >> > It arrived a few minutes ago.
> >> >
> >> > It works.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > However, I was disappointed that it contained no entry for
> "Wikireader".
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ;-)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Was pleased to see it came with nice alkaline batteries, not those
> cheap
> >> > carbon ones that eventually fail and destroy the device they came
> with.
> >> >
> >> > But instead, I put in a pair of "eneloop" rechargeable NiMH batteries,
> >> > 1.2 volts.  Those seem to work just fine.
> >> >
> >> > It came with an 8GB microSDHC card.  3.2GB free, plenty of room for
> more
> >> > data.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Next:  Figure out how to hack in a extra button at the top level that
> >> > takes us to a custom page where we can link in our own personal
> >> > content...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ...and some code to run on my desktop machine, to manage the content
> of
> >> > these SD cards...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ...thanks, guys, there goes another chunk of my copious spare time...
> >> >
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> >> >
> >> envy, a lot of envy :P
> >>
> >> David Reyes Samblas Martinez
> >> http://www.tuxbrain.com
> >> Open ultraportable & embedded solutions
> >> Openmoko, Openpandora,  Arduino
> >> Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!!
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