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

David Reyes Samblas Martinez david at tuxbrain.com
Mon Oct 19 23:29:37 CEST 2009


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
>>
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>> http://www.tuxbrain.com
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