Freerunner-powered bike ride

[steve]

This community rocks.  Jetskis or hang gliders anyone?  

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[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Konstantin
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:55 PM
To: List for Openmoko community discussion
Subject: Re: Freerunner-powered bike ride

Hi there!

> Hi community!
> 
> Just want to drop a line that I today made my first bike ride with a 
> Freerunner mounted on the handle bar of my bike. If someone is 
> interested I could take some photos to show what the mount-kit looks 
> like and how the Freerunner fits in.

[x] Interested! :)

> It's a universal mobile phone bike-mount-kit by LesCars (don't want to 
> push the brand, but there are only few mount-kits for bikes out there) 
> [1]. All ports (USB, GPS, audio) and the 2 buttons are usable with 
> this mount-kit.
> 
> With tangoGPS I had a lot of fun riding around town exploring new 
> roads for Openstreetmap. ;)
> 
> The next step would be a dynamo-powered charger for the Freerunner. I 
> read an article in the german computer magazine ct [2] about creating 
> a converter for charging USB devices while riding your bike with a 
> hub-dynamo. The article provides detailed instructions for building it 
> yourself, but I don't have the necessary soldering skills. So I'll 
> have to ask soldering-experts... ;)

Interestingly, that's precisely the thing I had in mind. I just bought a
bike today, and am planning to somehow build the c't usb-charger for a bike
(probably with some friends with soldering-skills, too ;) ) some time in the
not too distant future. Maybe we can exchange experiences with that :)

> Happy ridin!
> 
> André
> 
> 
> [1] description in german: http://www.pearl.de/a-PX2065-4044.shtml
> [2] ct magazine 23/2007 page 190, german language
> (http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ct/07/23/190)

So long,
Konstantin

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