Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.dos1 at gmail.com
Sat May 1 13:57:14 CEST 2010


On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 13:48, Christoph Mair <ml at chonyota.net> wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a
> navigation board!
>
> What is it?
> The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure
> rotations as well as the magnetic field in 3D respectively (i.e. compass and
> gyroscopes integrated). The navigation board can be integrated in the existing
> Freerunner case.
>
> How can we test it?
> In order to test the functionality of the sensors we developed a monitor
> application for sensors written completely in Vala. For more detailed
> information on both, Freerunner Navigation Board and Sensor Monitor, please
> refer to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Freerunner_Navigation_Board
>
> What can we do with it?
> No idea. Perhaps someone of you can find an appropriate use :p
>
> We are looking forward to get feedback and comments.
>
> Cheers,
>  Christoph & Michele

Great! Could you write mail about it on shr-devel list with all needed
information about drivers? I would like to see drivers for it included
by default in SHR :)

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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