No GTA03 in 2009 :(

05Apr09

2-3 back came a sad and shocking news (atleast to me) that Openmoko has sacked/let go of 50% of its work force and has ceased all developments for GTA03. Furthermore Openmoko has stopped funding FSO. Both of which were grim developments to hear.
On a brighter note, FSO has started work on the Vala/C implemention of [...]

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Tags: cornucopia, freerunner, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, gta03, odeviced, openmoko, vala

Summer ends but the insanity continues.

12Sep08

In Chennai we have three seasons, summer (nov-march), f***ing hot summer (april – june), a mildly wet but still hot summer (july-oct). In case you are wondering where I am pointlessly heading to, I was talking about the Google Summer of Code 2008 which ended successfully for me ; the code which I submitted [...]

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Tags: freerunner, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, ilugc, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko, sfd, summer

odeviced: Accelerometers, PowerControl, IdleNotifiers and Input plugins

16Aug08

Phew. GSoC 2008 program is going to end in a couple of days and boy, did I have fun. Most of the code for the second phase was actually pushed last week. Anyway, here are the updates.

Accelerometer plugin for Freerunner. Now you can use odeviced to retrieve accelerometer values for the position of the device [...]

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Tags: freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko, vala

Woot..Passed the mid-term evals

17Jul08

After a week’s waiting my mentor informed me that I had passed the mid-term evaluations. (he said that my performance for the first phase exceeded his expectations. ).
Its been a long time since I actually blogged about the progress. After I got the Freerunner in my hand (muhuhahahaa), it was more fun since [...]

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Tags: frameworkd, freerunner, freesmartphone, fso, gsoc, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko

Finally, The Freerunner is here..

25Jun08

Wow, DHL dudes are fast. They took just 4 days to ship the device considering there was a sunday in-between. Thanks to Daniel for sending the devices to the SoC’ers.
I don’t have a dedicated camera, so pics are a bit sucky
(Evil maniacal laughter) Here are the pics…muhuhahaha

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Tags: freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko, pics

odeviced: More sysfs abuse (Screenshot attached! :P)

13Jun08

A few days gone by, and endless wrestling with git wherein I was not able to push code. Turned out, I was using the wrong URL to push ..doh!
But anyway, the code is beginning to stabilise a bit (Read no unexpected segfaults, only expected ones..). The last few days were spent in changing the method [...]

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Tags: dbus, freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko

I got a job at Google *glee* (honest)

10Jun08

I am pretty sure my friends would go “WTF, you are too dumb for Goog” by now.
Guess what, I am a full time employee of Google now!. (*ahem* for three months).
I was more of an impression that I was technically an intern for three months. But after reading Aju’s post, it turns out all Summer [...]

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Tags: freeruner, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko

Battery Plugin and more..

05Jun08

After a little chat with mickeyl, I realised that exposing crucial functions like load() and unload() was not that of a good idea considering how odeviced is supposed to closely interact with the underlying devices. Consequently there has been some changes over the last week,

No DBus interface for the service.
Plugins have now access to a [...]

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The code is in…

02Jun08

Yay. Got the repository for odeviced set up at http://git.freesmartphone.org
Boy, do I love git.

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First frigging milestone..

29May08

Why Milestone? Nope, I didn’t come up with fancy code or a “beautiful” one for that matter (Came up with a way to unload plugins). Milestone, because today was the first day I was squeezing up my half empty head to work around a teency weency problem. In short, I am happy I was actually [...]

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Tags: embedded, freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, linux, mobile, odeviced, openmoko