<wolfspraul>
just checking their donation, it's up to about 10,000 USD now, not bad
<wolfspraul>
shows that there is quite some passion behind this idea
<wolfspraul>
not that those 10k usd will ever result in anything, imho :-)
<DocScrutinizer>
wow, would result in a nice holiday here :-D
<DocScrutinizer>
kristianpaul: microSD is mostly specifying formfactor, while SDHC is a protocol implying a maximum supported storage size (next step SDXC)
<lunavorax_mini>
Hello everyone !
<lunavorax_mini>
Is it me or did the VGA via SD Card slot on the Ben Nanonote made some serious progress ? :)
<wpwrak>
lunavorax_mini: it did fro the first version to the latest. didn't have time to play with it last week, though, so no progress since it hit the news
<lunavorax_mini>
wpwrak, I said this because I saw some articles about it on hackaday and such with a beautiful picture of a perfect vga screen.
<lunavorax_mini>
wpwrak, I suddently was wondering if that kind of hack was possible on my netbook which got an SD card slot.
<lunavorax_mini>
wpwrak, not necesseraly a VGA hack but a bliniking led hack and such.
<wpwrak>
depends on whether you can find out what controller chip is used for the sd card slot. it's probably some usb-to-sd/mmc/ms/etc. bridge
<methril_work>
once again wpwrak impress me
<wpwrak>
then you can try to find documentation. then find out if it implements some direct gpio access. if it does, great. if it doesn't, your plan B would be to see if you can fake transactions to a point where they do something useful. faking transactions is tricky, though.
<wpwrak>
methril_work: success ! ;-)
<methril_work>
i need to met you some day, you motivate some hackers ;)
<lunavorax_mini>
ok wpwrak look even harder than I though :P
<wpwrak>
lunavorax_mini: yeah. it's much easier with an SoC, like in the ben. there, you have the controller right in the cpu and you can generally switch the pins to gpio
<wpwrak>
methril_work: actually ... i should have a slot to speak about qi-hw at FISL. so if you go there, we could have a few beers ;-)
<methril_work>
wpwrak, i`ll try to go
<kristianpaul>
beer !
<kristianpaul>
free beer? ;_)
<kristianpaul>
wpwrak: methril_work have a mm1 i think, so i think it looks like you can make a party :-)
<methril_work>
i`ve
<methril_work>
i`ll try to be there
<wpwrak>
methril: great !
<lunavorax_mini>
Oh it's in Brazil !
<kristianpaul>
se
<wpwrak>
lunavorax_mini: no less than the biggest annual free software event on the planet :)
<lunavorax_mini>
wpwrak, darn :( can't be there at all
<lunavorax_mini>
too far
<wpwrak>
it's actually a pretty convenient distance from buenos aires ;-)
<lunavorax_mini>
Hahaha
<kristianpaul>
is near but dont have credit now, may be for a travel to argetina later
<kristianpaul>
indeed wpwrak :-)
<kristianpaul>
I think you can reach brazil even by Bus i was talk some day..
<lunavorax_mini>
wpwrak, I really don't have credits for now, even less if you add the fact that I still am considering to make a donation to qi-hw ;)
<wpwrak>
(now they're even flying there from the domestic airport, which is a few taxi minutes closer to my home than the international one. has more strikes, though.)
<methril_work>
wpwrak, if i finally go, you could come to Pelotas, and we go together
<wpwrak>
kristianpaul: (bus) should be feasible. it would be something like 24 hours, i guess. by plane it's something like 2-3 hours
<methril_work>
i`m living near Porto Alegre
<methril_work>
2-3 hours by car
<methril_work>
bbl, lunch time
<methril_work>
i`m back
<ron_>
wpwrak have you been following recent news about device support by Android
<ron_>
protocol does not look too complex
<ron_>
one reason it may be interesting w/Nanonote is it's designed for USB device (like Ben) talking with external platform (USB host)
<ron_>
some interesting Android-ish stuff will support the Google protocol