Freerunner-powered bike ride

[steve]

I own three. Quarter Midgets actually. 

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[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Federico Lorenzi
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 2:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Freerunner-powered bike ride

Go karts, actually. :)

On 8/2/08, steve <steve at openmoko.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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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