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| Thread title | Replies | Last modified |
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| Ya NanoNote feature requests | 10 | 12:12, 28 August 2010 |
| Ben NanoNote user questions | 10 | 14:07, 3 July 2010 |
| Supertux on Ben! | 0 | 03:44, 4 June 2010 |
| General discussion | 2 | 12:52, 9 April 2010 |
Solderless serial connector without interference with keyboard :P, IR (LIRC compatible) ,GPS, and/or some kind of low power modem radio like Jeelabs are using in his JeeNodes, I thing this tree "easy" to integrate peripherals can boost a lot the applications of such little device.
WIFI,BT are too much power hungry/complicated/qickevolving and bloated to include right now.
I'm playing with my Ben Nanonote right now. Great little toy. :D
I'd love a Ya Nanonote with:
- integrated WiFi and/or Bluetooth (or at least: double SDIOHC slot and optional BT/WiFi cards)
- larger screen within current shell (why so large a bezel...)
- USB host
- higher capacity battery (2x-3x)
- optical mouse (like in Samsung SGH-i780: works wonders)
- backlighted keyboard
- smoother keyboard: Ben's keys are hard to press
- 2x-4x RAM
Fernando
Although it´s power hungry my wish for the Ya would be Wifi. Wifi really opens up a lot of possibilities. Also a larger screen / higher resolution would be great.
Regards, -Thomas
Some method of adding external peripherals or devices and external connectors for existing features.
Some thoughts that come to mind:
Several GPIOs - for implementing I2C, 1W, etc via bit-banging
CF - not just for flash, but also for CF WiFi, CF GPS, etc
WiFi - could be low power if a pair of decent antennas can be built in to the lid
BlueTooth
ZigBEE - 1mW should be enough for anybody :)
Line-IN/mic connector
USB Host
UART connector (both ttyS0 and ttyS1 on the same connector)
JTAG
etc
An "expansion port" could be created that would combine more than one of these into a proprietary (but documented) interface using standard connectors, a single- or dual-row 0.1" pitch header (could be male or female), for example.
With the expansion port, it would be easy to create a prototyping board that would either plug directly into the port (remember the Handspring Springboard modules?) or would connect via a short ribbon cable. This would encourage development and help with troubleshooting.
With a little work, the external modules could supply power independently to the devices on the module or even power the Ya, appearing as a 2nd battery, reducing the need for a larger battery.
When using the expansion port or CF, etc, the device would not necessarily need to be contained within the Ya. For instance, the CF card connector could be about 1/4" inside the case, just enough to hold the card securely.
-Rich
if doing a expansion port, perhaps one could borrow the layout bug labs use on their modules? http://bugcommunity.com/wiki/index.php/Exploded_Connector_Diagram
Some sort of Pointing stick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick would be awesome! I would definitively buy one with this feature!
kid of late but why not add a small vibrator small devices tend to have one to notify when something happen
How to display Chinese character in NN ? Since i cannot find /usr/share/i18n, and openwrt seems don't have "locale". So I don't know how to setup. Could someone give me a direction? Thanks.
I´m trying to communicate the SD port with a FPGA which simulates a SD card. What i want to do is to send a data by the SD port, any idea how to do that?
I'm hard of hearing in noisy environments, so my application idea is a "smart hearing aid/music player/noise canceling ear phones", ie. I want to be running the thing continuously, with the lid closed, in my pocket, with (at least two channel preferably more) microphone input and two channel audio out.
1) Can it run with the lid closed? 2) How long will the battery last on one charge?
Thanks!
> 1) Can it run with the lid closed?
Yes.
> 2) How long will the battery last on one charge?
I have measured about 5 and a half hour runtime with the display turned on and the cpu decoding ogg vorbis audio files. You can expect it to run some more hours when you turn off the display backlight (which you won't need anyway when you close the lid).
With only cron running (I was testing maximal battery time) it was running from 1 am to 6 pm, more or less. Around 15 hours, but without processing anything or the like, also the screen was off (it auto turns off after a while) and the lid closed.
Ruben
OpenWrt use UCI system, please checkout: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/fstab
xiangfu
A few things. One. Would this thing be useful to make a robot with?
these questions are all related to each other, I guess, so I'll make them one big question. Can I get a graphical text editor (gedit) running on this thing without much complaint? Also, could I run a webkit based browser (like midori), or would that kill the system's limited RAM? And can I connect USB Wifi adapters to the nanonote, like an old Linksys b/g antenna (http://www.vdhsoft.be/memo/19495.HTM for reference purposes)? It works flawlessly under other Linux distributions, but I was thinking about using that in conjunction with my Ben, to connect in a few places and get online, partly to show off, partly to have fun with it. Also, does the gmenu based GUI lend itself easily to running more than one program at once (e.g a small IM client, like Finch, and Dillo/midori/lynx), or will I mostly be running one program at a time? If it doesn't run well, how well does this system work with the byobu (Screen's more mature cousin) system?
That was a long one. I have two more, one's a technical, the other one is sort of random. So, on the technical side. It says something about shorting two wires for updating the Ben. How do I go about doing that? I'm pretty new to electronics, but in my experience, shorting wires usually leads to shocking the crap out of myself. If someone would like to post a tutorial, I'd be pretty happy with that, since I have no idea what I should do there.
Finally, in all the images of gmenu2x, I see that big dock on the top, and that little bar on the bottom. Is there any way I could reverse those, so I could have the big dock on the bottom and the little one on top, like a little GNOME desktop? It's sort of a silly question, but I wasn't sure.
How can I emulate this software? Ideally I'd like to emulate this using virtual box with the correct screen resolution.
Also What programming language would you suggest I use to write for this device (specifically at this screen resolution)
Thanks!
I got Supertux running on the Ben. I used libsdl-mixer.ipk from OpenWrt because Supertux doesn't run without sdl-mixer. I just downloaded the Dingoo Binary here and it worked like a charm!
Sadly this has two problems: Sound doesn't work which isn't that surprising but the bigger issue is that it crashes on saving.
So i am asking here if anyone would like do a proper Supertux port for the Ben since being able to play Supertux on it will greatly improve its commercial success. ;)
Here is the Source. Shouldn't be that hard.
Hello,
I seem to not be able to find the electronic plans for the NanoNote. Where can I find them?
Also, can you tell me which company manufactures the NanoNote if that is not a secret...
Best regards, -Thomas
Schematics are here: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Lb60_schematic.pdf
Manufacturer is Sharism at Work in Hong Kong, GGV in Beijing, and Sunty in Shenzhen, and then many other component and part vendors like Giantplus for the LCM, Ingenic for the CPU, Samsung for the NAND, etc. We want to document all of them, and all production steps, but it's a work in progress and will take quite some time.
Thanks for your interest in our device!
