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Qi-Hardware Ben Nanonote reflashing

This are  photos the steps to  flash a dev version device of the Qi-Hardware Ben NanoNote, final version will have an already installed functional OS and surelly put the device in USB mode will be more smooth

I have followed this tutorials with no deviation so no sense to rewrite all commands again just some comments on the pictures, click on the image to view them on high resolution,.

FOSS devices in the Karmic Castanyada (Lleida Ubunty Install party)

Tuxbrain was invited,  by  la comunidad de Ubuntaires to the Karmik chestnuts party(castanyada Karmika) done in   IES Torre Vicens on 7th November, there we do a speach about FOSS friendly devices  and we enjoy a a lot the meeting with good friends, also was the first tests on "real world" of our devices , especial mention to our  Sharp Netwalker  the presentation was done with and from it :)

Next a photopost of how the meeting was lived by us.

Images on WikiReader, posible?

Due itenacionalization on the device in on the way and is posible to run other apps , another way to improve the software is to be able to include image on it , taking in considreation the difficulty to do it on the limitations of the device 1bit of color (Black/White) and 240x208 pixels resolution, below I have selected a few random image from the Wikipedia using the Random Article special page and I have tried to tranform them to the format understandable to the device (pbm format) in the hypothetical situation it has an already included image viewer than allows to do vertical scroll , so all images has a with of 240 pixels. I think the results are quite promising due the process is the same for all image with same parameters and results are quite good to be the first attempt.

WikiReader:The "hidden" menus

Thanks to Thomas HOCEDEZ and his blogto discover some "hidden" menus, well if anything can be hidden when you can access to the source code :P ,  To access this menu/programs you must push one the keys along with the power button when you power on the device


history button +Power=Calculator

WikiReader:Wikipedia in Spanish (Work in Progress)

The procces is not full ready yet, it fails due issues on articles with different codding(utf8/Latin1) , and I can just proccess the 40% of the Spanish Wikipedia , but here is a sample of the Spanish Wikipediar Wikipedia running on WikiReader

Tuxbrain first anniversary


To celebrate it we down the price of Openmoko Neo FreeRunner A6+ to 199EUR VAT included, offer valid until end of stock.
Thanks to all to make us enjoy this first year of life

About sizes...

Down-up order , Toshiba NB100, Sharp Netwalker , Qi Hardware Ben NanoNote


Compare this beauties with a standard keyboard and a 19" monitor

Using an external monitor with a Sharp Netwalker

Since I have my first ultraportable linux device(hp jornada 680 with Jlime) I always dreamed to not have to carry my laptop to do conferences and workshops, and do them with what I carry on pocket directly but I had no found any solution than fits, until now :)
Here is the steps to make the Sharp Netwalker use an external monitor or a projector:

Openmoko new device:WikiReader

As they have advised the new Openmoko Inc. device has nothing in common with his previous product the Neo FreeRunner, its an amazing simple idea, a portable Wikipedia reader, the WikiReader.

OM-Showroom something to show

Some work is to be done both on the server and in the code before we can put it online but we have some screenshoots to show the work in progress, no mockups, the site is running on local on my virtualized debian and the example apps are upladed using the site adminstration :), click on the images to see them full size.

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