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FOSDEM2010, from inside in a corner

Hi, following is an abstract of our livings on FOSDEM2010, I have tried to sort it chronologically but due pics and videos are from different sources,there are more than 150 pics and more than 60 vid and there beer runs like water and as you can notice there, english is not my language, I beg you to forgive me the wrong order, wrong or lack of names and general fails that might be here.

Friday 5th Febrary 2010

If some one look for us at FOSDEM ...

Victor and I (David) will wear this t-shirt

And please don't ask, we not sell them :) ... yet

... As expected, on our own, here you have the T-Shirt template in vector format for everybody wants to have fun.

Posting using NanoNote with Wifi

Posting while lying in the couch using Ben NanoNote with uSD Wifi, not too long post due I'm doing it from the console with lynxs, but at least I was able to it twice, one on each language :P. Full howto soon

Interview of Tuxbrain on AptitudeFM Radio


 

We were on Aptitude FM on 11/01/10 and we have a great time with Sirocco and company , a must repeat experience. Interview was a mixture of Spanish and Catalonian and we talk about Copyleft Hardware and Qi Hardware, and I realize how bad am I talking in public, I look like and 386 initianting an OpenOffice, luckily Victor was there and make the speech more fluent :)
Here is the link

Programa 50 – Hardware Lliure en un dia binari

Title translation: Free(as freedom) Hardware on a binary day.

Tuxbrain is the Qi hardware EU distributor


Due Wolfgan Spraul has already made it public on Qi-Hardware list, I believe I can make it public too :P, Tuxbrain is who will bring Ben Nanonote to Europe(at least to the 25 states members of EU).

Connecting Arduino to Netwalker(I)

Connecting Arduino to Netwalker(I)
Installing Arduino IDE on Netwalker

This is a step by step tutorial to install Arduino IDE 017 in Sharp Netwalker, in order to edit and load software to Arduino I/O boards
This how-to is mainly based on the tutorial in Japanase from Hatena Diary

Doom y Quake en Ben NanoNote (videos)

Let's face the truth , a geek device is not enough geek if you can't play Doom on it :P. Ben NanoNote of Qi Hardware has pass this barrier as you can see in the following videos. Please don't laugh on my gaming abilities, I can only use one hand and I'm looking trough the cam screen, when Wifi on the device will fully working we can do a network game and talk about it, hum?

WikiReader in Spain and in spanish


Here I have the first units to sell of Openmoko WikiReader and the Wikipedia in spanish,
Wikireader comes with english Wikipedia with more than 3 million articles already bundled in the box, spanish wikipedia has about half million articles
To obtain the spanish wikipedia you have three methods:

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.
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