Sebastian Spaeth points to a study (german language) of the ETH Zürich which sheds a little light on the motivation of Nokia and open source hackers who collaborate on the internet tablets.
Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category
Why volunteers are writing code “for Nokia” for free
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Writing a GPS-app using PyMaemo
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Completely neglecting Paul Ferrill’s tutorial, I played a bit with PyMaemo to create an application which allows to record waypoints easily using the N810.
One further synthetic Numpty Physics Level
Friday, March 20th, 2009I played a bit more with the file format of Numpty Physics, so here’s the result:
More Numpty Physics Levels
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Quote from the Numpty Physics homepage:
If you wish to be clever, edit the level file directly – it’s just a simple text format.
As I wished “to be clever”, I did:
Basic Cubes
Interestingly, it is not possible to create perfect sqares. It is possible to draw “horizontal” lines, but as soon as you try to create vertical ones within a square, weird things happen. This is why the vertical edges of the squares seen above are not perfectly perpendicular to the baselines.
My first Numpty Physics levels ever
Monday, March 16th, 2009As I fixed my Numpty Physics installation yesterday, I grabbed the occasion and created my first two levels ever. Don’t assume I have solved them yet – it was difficult enough to design them!
As my webserver does not support direct loading, download the files to the tablet and move them to the following directory:
Hope you enjoy :) .
Fixing Numpty Physics crashes in Diablo
Sunday, March 15th, 2009One of the best applications for the Nokia Internet Tablet N810 is Numpty Physics. I’ve never been a fan of computer games, but this one is outstanding! Unfortunately, it crashed on my Diablo installation, but I managed to fix it a couple of minutes ago.
Nokia N810 in a “home grown” bike mount
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Having fun with BlueMaemo
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
RAM mount arrived
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Gosmore for Maemo
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Case for the Nokia N810
Saturday, February 14th, 2009For this year’s biking trips, I want to replace my worthy Garmin GPSMap 60Cx with my Nokia N810. But unlike the GPSMap, the Nokia is neither water- nor shock-resistant. I searched the web for a bike mount, but that led me nowhere. So I came up with a rather DIY’ish solution, which I started today:
Single-click-installer for Navit on Maemo
Saturday, February 7th, 2009Meanwhile, there’s a single-click-installer for Navit on the Nokia internet tablets. It will run out of the box without any further configuration, showing some place in southern germany. However, you may want to install maps covering the area where you live.
G1 Android cell phone available in germany
Thursday, February 5th, 2009Finally the G1 hit the german market. Though it looks a bit like my Nokia N810, the screen resolution of 480 x 320 is just to low for really viewing webpages or (more important) maps when biking.
I’m still very curious about the successor of the N810. It will be driven by Maemo 5. The SDK is officially available for Maemo developers, so some details about the future hardware leaked.
Ruby script to convert waypoints to MaemoMapper POIs
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009I’ve just written a small Ruby script which can convert GPX waypoints to a sqlite database file to be used in MaemoMapper. The next time I get surprised by some rainy clouds while riding my bike in the forests, I will at least know where the next shelter can be found:
If you need some material to play with the script, I have just updated the POIs for europe as well. Hope you like it.
POIs for Europe updated
Monday, February 2nd, 2009I just updated the POIs for Europe. The archive contains 847.348 POIs in 163 categories. Those are wrapped in 163 GPX waypoint files and one huge GPI file for direct use in your Garmin GPSr. Have fun!
Drone Gadget for Openaerialmap
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009If you think that openstreetmappers are people who spend lots of money for their GPS toys, there are similar projects which require even more expensive gadgets :) .
GroundTruth Released
Monday, January 26th, 2009Igor Brejc just released GroundTruth, yet another tool to create Garmin maps from OSM data.
CrunchPad – an open source tablet computer
Monday, January 19th, 2009Leaving my footprints in Oberkaufungen
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Hope you survived all of the holidays and your transition went well. Like most people, I spent some lazy days with various family members, enjoying great meals (including an original hungarian Pörkölt).
Accidentally :) I noticed that the town nearby was barely mapped. As the weather was cold but sunny, I grabbed the occasion and mapped Oberkaufungen by foot. (more…)
Hints on compiling Navit for the Nokia N810
Saturday, December 20th, 2008Gerrit Visser managed to compile the current SVN code of Navit for the N8x0. Though he shared some valuable hints (thanks a bunch!), I didn’t manage to compile the current Navit code in my own Scratchbox environment yet. I’m pretty confident we will iron this issue out some day. Gerrit also added some code to start the gpsd on the Maemo platform during Navit’s startup. Previously, you needed to start another GPS application in order to get a position in Navit. Now it’s done automatically. Feels a bit like Xmas time :) .
Anyway, for the time being, you can find automatically built precompiled binaries on Navit’s download pages.