LinuxTag MaemoFun

April 13th, 2008 by keesj ()

Whe had a nice chat on the #maemo irc. It started by trying to define how a maemo hacker should
perform presentations at linuxtag. Because the obvious answer is called "noBounds" we started brainstorming
about the other possibilities. many possibilities involve having a "real" server and controlling
the real server using the nokia. This can be done using web 2.0 or vnc. an other alternative is using the tablet as mass-storage device but of course that is not sexy!.

We did not find the the answer , but we did came up with some nice ideas of what could be a nice goal for LinuxTag or a reason for gathering. I mean what is the point of see each other if you don't have a common goal!

Here are some ideas:

Create a 4 times HD big wall of nokias
- That is 10*9 devices
Create a scroller using different tablets
Allow people to use a tablet to draw on screen
Create 3d images using images captured using tablets
- Have the tablet create a sound chain reaction
- record and playback
Create a messhed network
Use BT to show you are wearing a device
- Broadcast your name
- Play war, don't get beeped

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Jaffa [Visitor] says:
04/13/08 @ 18:20
One thing I thought of was some kind of network based bouncing ball app (similar to WWBounce at http://www.jaffasoft.co.uk/downloads/)

There'd be a set of balls bouncing around the screen of various tablets, and touching the screen would introduce a barrier which the ball would bounce off.

I can't think of a good way of identifying your closest other NIT with which to auto-swarm them, though.

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Quim [Visitor] says:
04/14/08 @ 06:36
Cool!
lcuk [Visitor] says:
04/14/08 @ 20:36
Jaffa, how about digging into the system and finding the relative wifi signal strength of other 8x0's around us?

For one person it is impractical, but if we could setup a few nodes in pre-specified locations we could guestimate location by checking the signal strengths in realtime.
It might even help if the strengths were shared amongst other 8x0s running the app.

Not sure if its possible or even how precise it would be if it is, but it may be worth a try

(there is lots of hand waving going on whilst describing this..)
lcuk [Visitor] says:
04/14/08 @ 23:52
Just done some initial checking.
Its possible to use bluetooth, but it has a ping time of about 10 seconds.
Will play some more and see if i can come up with something in principle.

keesj