1000x 本 NanoNote
Yesterday (24.02.2010) Qi-Hardware1 proudly announced their first product of copylefted hardware – Ben NanoNote – which is now released to the public. The first batch of 1000 NanoNotes is produced. They are shipping and in stock in Hong Kong, Europe and India!2
Now, Qi-Hardware’s masterplan is to sell their 1000 units. Actually they have to sell them, because they spend $180.000 until now, without earning any money (as stated in chapter two of the “[Company] Weekly Update 6/2010”3)
So, if you are an opensource enthusiast, interested in a miniPC/PDA like gadget with 100% opensource hardware (a.k.a. copyleft hardware), running 100% opensource software, which offers a lot of opportunities to run all sort of software on it, go for it!
Get a Ben NanoNote and help Qi-Hardware to finance their current and future efforts in the opensource hardware business:
Official Shop: http://www.nanonote.cc
European Distributor: http://www.tuxbrain.com
German Distributor: http://www.pulster.eu
[1] http://www.qi-hardware.com
[2] http://en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/developer/2010-February/002114.html
[3] http://en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/developer/2010-February/002114.html
Long time no see.
Hey guys out there!
It was pretty quit here on my blog for a long time, now. My last post is more than three months ago.
As you may have noticed I updated my blog to a new theme and system. I did this in the one move, while changing to a newer and better webspace.
The system I use nowadays is called Chyrp, using the Gull theme.
I am amazed by this nice and lightweight piece of software!
I didn’t have a lot of time, as I was bussy with school. Now , after 13 years of school, I’m (almost) finished with my “Abitur”.
Cheers, Slyon
Virtual Keyboard
I just found this little EFL-testapp:
It’s an app written by Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri. It’s an Iphone like virtual keyboard. You can find the sourcecode on googlecode..
I had to apply a little change to the code, to get it running on the Freerunner.
I changed lines 206-210 to this:
if ecore.evas.engine_type_supported_get(“software_16_x11”):
ee = ecore.evas.SoftwareX11_16(w=WIDTH, h=HEIGHT)
else:
print “warning: x11-16 is not supported, fallback to x11”
ee = ecore.evas.SoftwareX11(w=WIDTH, h=HEIGHT)
Maybe someone likes to modify this code and build a real virtural keyboard for SHR out of it?
I hope i could motivate someone, as this would be a really nice keyboard.
fsoraw and neon
Today I decided to try out the picture-viewing-app “neon” [1] [2] on my Freerunner. This app is really amazing! It is pretty fast and provides very cool features like auto rotating images by dimensions, auto rotating window using accelerometers and of course zooming, manual rotating images, slide-show, the basic stuff. And if you use the b_and_w theme it looks pretty elegant.
All in all i can say: I love this app! And therefore i created a ticket in the SHR-Trac to add neon to the SHR-Feed [3].
After a while of using neon I found a few things that couldn’t satisfy my expectations:
- 1st the white background of the b_and_w theme, which is visible if a picture doesn’t fill the screen. But a short look in the neon-SVN and one edje_cc later I had created a edje-file for b_and_w theme, which has a black background [4].
- 2nd issue was that the display of the Freerunner blanked while looking at pictures. This is where “fsoraw” [5] [6] comes on. Fsoraw (FSO Resource Allocation Wrapper) is a wrapper utility to launch applications preallocating system resources from FSO. That means you can activate e.g. the “Display”-resource, just by editing the .desktop file of an app. This way I edited my /usr/share/applications/neon.desktop to allocate the “CPU” and “Display” resources, to avoid suspending and display blanking. Furthermore, I customised the neon parameters to activate the picture and window auto rotating stuff, to use the b_and_w theme and to start in my “Bilder” (=pictures) folder. The Exec line of the .desktop file now looks like this:
Exec=fsoraw -r CPU,Display — neon -f -r 0 -R 1 -t b_and_w /media/mmcblk0p3/Bilder
Have fun with neon and use fsoraw (e.g. for mokomaze, too):
Exec=fsoraw -r CPU,Display mokomaze[1] neon project page
[2] neon in om-wiki
[3] shr #596
[4] download this edje-file
[5] fsoraw project page
[6] fsoraw in om-wiki
FSO Milestone 5.5 is out!
A few minutes ago mickey released the long-awaited milestone 5.5 of the FreeSmartphone.Org (FSO) smartphone middleware.
Check out the git-commit here: http://git.freesmartphone.org
Big thanks to the whole FSO team for this great piece of software!
Now let’s look forward to the new FSO 2.0 API-Implementation – called cornucopia, which is rewritten in Vala. Vala is a compiled language, which leads to an performance boost in comparison with the FSO 1.0 implementation, which is written in Python.