Road trip to Yelagiri

17Dec09

I have been a lurker in the forums of xbhp, just gaping in awe as these guys do road trips to far off places complete with triplogs. I knew I wanted to do something like this and was itching to take my FZ for a ride in the great outdoors. The farthest I had been […]

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Tags: freerunner, fz16, osm, roadtrip, xbhp, yamaha, yelagiri

Mashing Twitter and FSO

06Dec09

I really love Twitter and it didn’t make any sense to me to shell out a rupee for every tweet sent through my Airtel Mobile. Moreover, I am on one of those monthly booster packs which allows you to send 22000 text messages for free. I simply had to exploit this by setting up my […]

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Tags: dbus, freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, gta02, neo, neo1973, openmoko, Python, scripts, snippet, twitter

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 […]

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

SHR, fsod and certain other things.

23Nov08

SHR (Stable Hybrid Release) released images recently and boy, did they do an awesome job at it. By far, SHR and Debian are some of the images that uses the FSO daemons by default. So turns out to be a great testing ground for the FSO APIs. And after a long while, I also got […]

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Tags: chitlapakkam, freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, fsod, neo1973, openmoko, openstreetmap, osm, tambaram

fsod status

20Oct08

Its been a while since I blogged about odeviced. In my earlier posts I had mentioned the possibility of integrating odeviced and others (which do not exist at the moment) into a single daemon for avoiding too much fracture. I have pushed some code that does this, converting odeviced into a Device subsystem that is […]

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Tags: FOSS, freerunner, freesmartphone.org, fso, fsod, linux, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko, Python, vala

Fun @ Shaastra

05Oct08

Four words. Shaastra ’08 was frigging awesome. I was there a couple of days and had fun meeting people (shres, madhusudhan and many others). Also got to speak about FSO framework (slides later) as part of the FOSS sub-conference. Lots of food, some awesome talks and a wonderful atmosphere made the event memorable. Too bad, […]

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Tags: FOSS, freesmartphone.org, fso, iit, linux, shaastra

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 was […]

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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 […]

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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 there […]

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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