Build Your Own Linux Powered Pda

[lardman]

IRC on freenode? How does one setup a channel?

http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#groups

What about an 'about' channel (starting with an '##') - do these require registration?


Si

[koen]

IRC on freenode? How does one setup a channel?
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/join <channelname>

[Da_Blitz]

sounds good as far as i can see this should be about 3 or 4 seperate threads by now. i guess i will have to do a bit of reading as well

[Da_Blitz]

and i should put this on the wiki

[koen]

and i should put this on the wiki
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And could you fix the wiki as well? It's playing hard to reach again.

[lardman]

What do we want name-wise for the IRC channel? I've just opened one called #openpda on irc.freenode.net

Still can't access the wiki...

Si

[Da_Blitz]

trust me the wiki is up as its on the machine i am typing on

problem seems to be dns related, i will try and get on that. i think my isp is booting me off at regular intervals and when i reconnect i get a diffrent ip

[speculatrix]

In an ideal world then a backpack would be great... One case is hard but having 2 cases that fit together in a neat way would be an order of magnitude more difficult. I think SD is the way to go, support is coming on a treat with linux.
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hey, we forgot to include SATA interface on this baby. good point, use this for mass storage.

[speculatrix]

Have you considered approaching GamePark with the plans, they are quite good at launching hardware which is well enough documented for people to do all sorts of things. Their GP2X would be an interesting device to hack, http://www.gp2x.com/ seeing as it has the core of the sort of thing we're looking for?

[km2783]

however a external device might in fact be a better option for them as it will have protection and shielding and allow the end user to deside how much they need in terms of sound[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=135006\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

there are several small USB-powered audio devices out there.  So far the MAudio Transit USB has been shot down to being a piece of noisy junk according to some reviews and driver issues.  It is 24/96, though, might be worth something if anyone can get it going) The Tascam US-122 is bigger than a clamshell Z and sucks down up to 500mA (according to the manual).

The Behringer UCA202 USB Interface is 16/48 and is nearly plug and play under Linux, but it is also only unbalanced RCA ins and outs.  Oh, it does have optical out as well.  It is $30 from zZounds   Gets pretty good reviews over there, too.

Samson also makes a condensor mic that plugs into USB, the C03U is the most recent incarnation.  It is also only 16/48, however   But it does get good reviews @ Harmony Central.  Can't seem to find too much about it running under Linux, though, just Windows and OSX.

Well, that's all for now.  I need to do some work, but i'll look for more stuff later.

[Da_Blitz]

i use a creative audigy 2 and it was plug and play for linux

for gamepark, i have considered it. if you look at where we are headed it is obvious (to me anyway) that to maintain the quality of the product we will have to lease the design or get a comercil company intrestead. at the moment i have several companies in mind

[Da_Blitz]

Ok i added some info to the wiki but keep in mind there is more than one project there (ie i mainly updated the smartups page) hower most of the work was with structure and making things play nice across the diffrent pages

all the other info i added to the openpda wiki was background infomation for keywords and mirrored this thread (116 pages long and 1/2 a MB of text and pictures)

have fun, if you want an acount just contact me and i will set it up, you dont need an acount to edit the material however it does make it easier for me to keep track of what edit you have made and allows you to upload and write protect pages

Please note the project specific bar on the left (took me awhile to figure that one out) changing projects changes the links at the top to those relevent for the project

[Tom61]

"Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at tac-net.homelinux.org."

[Da_Blitz]

hmm this is becoming a major problem for me, because of the way my router is seh up i cant test it from the outside and my ISP is giving me problems, i should look at getting it hosted somewhere else

[danboid]

Good to see we now have Nemuri Neko, who has already desgined multiple PDA's, on board. Sounds like he could be of great assistance to this project.

Someone suggested using the PSP screen- its not good enough I'm afraid as it can only manage 480x272 iirc. It seems the 6000 screen is the fave right now but I'm really hoping that by the time the hardware is mostly complete we will be able to get an affordable 800x480 or even 800x600 screen. Thats what I'd get as I want to be able to watch DVD quality videos and actual DVDs without scaling.

As for Gamepark manufacturing this- I would say stay away if the GP2X is anything to go by. I've not played with the new model GP2X yet but my mate has the original GP2X and I have to say it stands out as the poorest build quality I've ever seen on some home electronics. The (crap, improperly aligned) joystick, which should've been a joypad anyway, fell off within the first week he had it. The headphone socket was poorly welded and you have to have the headphone jack sticking out just slightly to get stereo. On top of all this you have to use a rolled up bit of tin foil to pad the battery connection- rechargeable batteries didn't fit in properly!!! What a joke! Contrast this to the beautiful, robust, quality build of the cxxxx we're used to and they're worlds apart.

DB- Please let me know the results of your experiments with SD cards under OZ. I've got a 150x 4GB SD card in the post and I've been wondering what the max rw xfer rates I'll be able to get from it on my c3k are. I've asked in a few threads on this site but had no answer yet.