NanoNote Firmware

May 13, 2011 05:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time MONTREAL, Canada FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More than 200 active developers, artists, and attendees of the 6th Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in Montreal were able to see the Milkymist One video synthesizer live ... [More] for the first time, to entertain and surprise them between talks and during breaks. Real-time video synthesis with audio and video input had been available before in proprietary packages combining multiple devices and costing several thousand USD. Milkymist One combines this into a small form factor, and uses only free software and free hardware acceleration. "The Milkymist One is the future of live performance and is the real freedom box, available now. Without a truly open hardware architecture, developers working on free and open software are going to be locked out from the future of development," said Jon Phillips, Fabricatorz Founder and Qi Hardware Co-founder. "I am extremely proud to use the Milkymist One live at the event, and explain why its so important for the future of Libre Graphics." Phillips is giving a final keynote presentation at LGM2011 where he is presenting the future of Libre Graphics, moving from developers on desktop systems they control, to network services outward towards embedded and hardware for making graphics. Later that night, Milkymist One will be featured during the Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 closing ceremony in Montreal at an event called Geepsters. The Milkymist project is an informal organization of people and companies who develop, manufacture and sell a comprehensive open source solution for the live synthesis of interactive visual effects for video performance artists, clubs and musicians. The project goes great lengths to apply the open source principles at every level possible, and is best known for the Milkymist system-on-chip (SoC) which is among the first commercialized system-on-chip designs with free HDL source code. Several Milkymist technologies have been reused in applications unrelated to video synthesis, such as NASA's Communication Navigation and Networking Reconfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT). Milkymist One is currently available in limited quantities to early adopters, and will be available later this summer for general use, at a target price of 499 USD. # # # [1] Milkymist homepage: http://www.milkymist.org/ [2] Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 homepage: http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/ [3] Pictures: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Press_Release:_Milkymist_One_video_synthesizer_shown_at_6th_Libre_Graphics_Meeting_in_Montreal Pictures free for use and publication in any media or format. Milkymist One video synthesizerhigh-res 5120x3413 pixels, 1.9 MB jpg Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 logohigh-res png, svg Candle640x480 png Star field640x480png Pyramids640x480 png Drunken boat640x480 png Me640x480 png Madness640x480 png Burning disc640x480 png Balkacid640x480 png Kaleidoscope640x480 png Interwoven640x480 png Focus640x480 png Matrix640x480 png Aqualung640x480 png Burning disc640x480 png Dragon640x480 png Torrid tales640x480 png Logo, name, URLhigh-res png, svg Logo, namehigh-res png, svg Logo onlyhigh-res png, svg About Milkymist The Milkymist project is an informal organization of people and companies who develop, manufacture and sell a comprehensive open source solution for the live synthesis of interactive visual effects for video performance artists, clubs and musicians. The project goes great lengths to apply the open source principles at every level possible, and is best known for the Milkymist system-on-chip (SoC) which is among the first commercialized system-on-chip designs with free HDL source code. Several Milkymist technologies have been reused in applications unrelated to video synthesis, such as NASA's Communication Navigation and Networking Reconfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT). About Libre Graphics Meeting The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting is the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library who gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats. Names of companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owner. EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: To request more information or find out about obtaining Milkymist One for review, please contact [email protected] --Qi team 05:00, 13 May 2011 (EDT) [Less]

Copying is an act of love. Please copy & share. Mimi and Eunice by Nina Paley Over at Osmocom, Marcin Mielczarczyk posted an update about getting the MTK 6140 GSM/EDGE RF transceiver to work for the free OsmocomBB GSM stack. Read on about ... [More] solid progress and good links, and join if you can... [1] Bitcoins: We've had discussions and discoveries about paying for copyleft hardware with Bitcoins, a digital currency created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Read an EFF commentary about Bitcoins. (Bitcoin on Wikipedia) Sharing spectrum: In order to connect potentially related projects, it's worth mentioning that the IETF recently started a mailing list to define a protocol for access to a white space database. The aim is to make unused or underused spectrum available on an ad-hoc basis, rather than preallocating large chunks of spectrum to the few nation-sized companies that are currently controlling access to our mobile Internet. Read more and join the paws mailing list at [2]. Milkymist Yann Sionneau made a presentation of Milkymist at OSHUG #8 in London, March 10. (PDF slides, TeX for remixing) Yann Sionneau talking about Milkymist One at OSHUG #8, London, March 10 Jon Phillips put his Milkymist One to good use at the Mozilla Firefox 4 release party in Beijing, China. [3] Milkymist One making people happy at Firefox 4 release party in Beijing, March 23 Jon Phillips proposed a change of the Milkymist One case color to transparent light-blue. He did an ad-hoc Starbucks survey and people at 3 different tables were all in favor of transparent light-blue over the violet that we used for most cases so far. There were no objections from Sebastien and others so it seems that's a go. Transparent light-blue - the case color for Milkymist One RC3 (acrylic panel on right side removed for JTAG). We are thinking about including a simple video camera as an accessory for Milkymist One, our current favorite is the OBK-2010CW with a 1/3' ' Sony CCD sensor, 0.5 Lux usable illumination, 3.6 mm M12 lens, weatherproof metal case (bullet style), standard 1/4' ' 20 tpi tripod threading. The decision is not final yet, we will do more comparisons and see what works well with Milkymist One. Also see Kristian Paul's camera comparison. OBK-2010CW (actual camera case is about 8 cm long, 2 cm diameter) Sebastien Bourdeauducq added visual patches for live video transformation [4]. Sebastien designed a new Flickernoise color theme. New Milkymist One color theme PDF viewer Sebastien updated his thorough 6-page technical introduction to the Milkymist project. pdf Xiangfu Liu wrote Makefiles for automatic compilation of the Milkymist One toolchain, RTEMS and Flickernoise, and added a screenshot feature fbgrab. Xiangfu Liu running Milkymist One [1:23 min, 9.1 MB] Michael Walle started working on a GDB based debug system using the serial link alone instead of OpenOCD. [5] NanoNote Jane Andreas created another Aewan ascii comic for Ben NanoNote - Kitchen Adventures. (Aewan .ae file) Maybe it extends further than I thought... David and Werner brought avrdude and an AVR cross compiler to the Ben, making the Ben the smallest independent Arduino controller. (Tuxbrain announcement Arduino.cc blog post) Ben meets Arduino. ArduNote First Steps - Building and flashing Arduino sketch with NanoNote [2:32 min, 15.4 MB] Tuxbrain produced 500 NanoNote universal breakout boards - UBB. (UBB Announcement, More about UBB, Buy UBB) Tuxbrain only moments away from ...? David Kühling made the first steps in using XBurst hardware acceleration features for accelerated mplayer video playing. [6] Werner sent several home-made ben-wpan prototypes to early supporters around the world. [7] From Buenos Aires with love. Werner got the first 802.15.4 communication going between two Bens via ATBEN boards, using the stack of the linux-zigbee project. [8] Tuxbrain will lead ben-wpan production and has started the process with the PCB fab.[9] Werner Almesberger started to make the design to SMT fab process semi-automatic and more reproducible with Makefile.kicad. atben - 802.15.4 8:10 card dongle. atusb - 802.15.4 USB dongle. Xué It seems the Xué project (a video camera based on Milkymist) reached a dead end with the original author having stopped working on it, and no new contributors joining. So until someone steps up, we borrowed the Apache Attic concept, and moved Xué to our very own attic. The attic may actually come in handy for a few other Qi projects and proposals that have reached end of life. Over time you may see some cleanup, with things being moved into the attic. Nothing gets lost there, so no worries... Copyleft hardware attic. --Qi team 12:00, 4 April 2011 (CET) [Less]

Over at our Osmocom GSM friends, Marcin Mielczarczyk gave a status update on his effort to run Linux on a MTK 6235 smartphone, including Youtube video to show Angstrom/OPIE running on the phone. The big task of actual GSM baseband action is still ... [More] missing, but I think this is one of the most promising approaches towards a free phone. Angstrom/OPIE booting on MTK 6235 phone David from Tuxbrain posted his impressions from attending FOSDEM 2011 in Bruxelles. David in Bruxelles, with NanoNotes, Milkymist One, and other gear. Dr. Schaller from gta04.org looking on. Milkymist Kristian Paul hacked Lua onto his Milkymist One (more about Lua on Wikipedia). Kristian Paul took copyleft hardware principles to heart, and had a case made for his Milkymist One locally in Colombia, using the same CAD files as the original cases from Raumfahrtagentur. Bogota made Milkymist One case (10 USD for the case, 5 USD shipping to Kristian Paul in Buga) Sharism is now selling full Milkymist One sets including case for 499 USD plus shipping. Yanjun Luo fixed a USB high-speed bug that slipped into the first jtag-serial daughterboard run. Existing stock was reworked by Adam, and bad boards in the field will be replaced (the bug was known before but a decision was made to go ahead because even with the bug, the boards work fine in still fast USB full-speed mode). [10] Many bug fixes and improvements, such as a hardware fix for an FPGA bootup configuration problem [11], RTEMS Ethernet driver fixes, added mouse-wheel support in Flickernoise and PDF-based help system. NanoNote Jane sent a Valentine's Ascii art gift, and continued with her case collection. (Valentineqi.ae) Jane's NanoNote case group hug Irina Bushmeleva joined Jane's crochet case production. [12] Ben and his wife. Nick Montfort released Curveship 0.5, an interactive fiction system, and immediately ported it to his Ben NanoNote. (Curveship sources) Curveship on NanoNote Thanks to David, kyak and others, new ports to Ben NanoNote's OpenWrt image were finished: Emacs, MPlayer, Brainless, flite, pyclock, supertux, sokoban, qball and more... (Full Applications List). Xiangfu released a new stable OpenWrt image, 2011-02-23 (Announcement, Changelog, Applications List). OpenWrt on Ben NanoNote Xiangfu Liu trying to convert rms (old picture) Werner Almesberger proposed a Universal Breakout Board as the cheapest way to get the relatively flexible NanoNote memory card interface exported for external use (wiki page about UBB). David from Tuxbrain announced taking UBB preorders (shop). Mirko Vogt did a hardware and software hack to control RF power sockets from a Ben NanoNote with the help of a HopeRF ISM module. (Mirko's blog post, hackaday.com article) NanoNote talking to remote switchable power sockets via HopeRF module. --Qi team 09:30, 1 March 2011 (CET) [Less]

NanoNote Werner published the first real life signal strength tests for atusd and atben 802.15.4 boards. [13], room coverage, video showing ben-wpan in action ben-wpan showing the RSSI of background traffic Jane Andreas designed another one ... [More] of her famous crochet NanoNote cases, this time Jlime inspired. [14] Ben NanoNote crochet case Jane Andreas made the first Ascii Comic for Ben NanoNote. [15] Aewan in action David Kuehling wrote an article about Forth on the Ben NanoNote that was published in the 4/2010 issue of German Forth magazine 4th Dimension. [16], article pdf David also continued his porting efforts with GNU Octave, PLplot LUA bindings, the zgv image viewer and others. GNU Octave, PLplot Lua bindings zgv Lua bindings for PLplot gnuplot Emacs Milkymist German Linux Magazin published a nice introduction to Milkymist One. [17] Milkymist One is now also available from Tuxbrain. [18] SIE/SAKC Cristian Paul uploaded the first live GPS I/Q data captured with his SiGe EVB, and asked people to join the software effort. [19] SiGe 4162T EVB hooked up to SIE Carlos Camargo forked the SAKC/SIE project to linuxencaja.net. He asked David from Tuxbrain to leave the project, so SAKC/SIE is now unmaintained at qi-hardware.com. linuxencaja.net has since started AndroidStamp, a breakout board around Freescale i.MX233. [20] [21] Events FOSDEM 2011. 5-6 February in Brussels(Belgium) Tuxbrain will be sharing a stand with Hackable Devices, Tuxbrain will expose NanoNote, MilkyMist ONE and some other products. if you plan to visit FOSDEM don't forget to go to the hallway and wave :) --Qi team 08:30, 1 February 2011 (EST) [Less]

Happy New Year everybody! NanoNote Rafa released Jlime Muffinman images for the NanoNote. With X environment, Matchbox Desktop, video and music player, PDF and offline wiki viewer, and much more. Jlime Desktop Liu Xiangfu released the ... [More] OpenWrt 2010-12-14 NanoNote image, including many bug fixes, new applications, and more... [22] NanoMap on OpenWrt 2010-12-14 Jane made a castle case for the NanoNote, and released source codes. [23] Jane's NanoNote castle case Milkymist roh from Raumfahrtagentur in Berlin made the second generation Milkymist One cases, this time out of acrylic instead of wood... [24] Milkymist One acrylic case Sébastien released Milkymist 1.0RC1 and Flickernoise 0.1 for use in the Milkymist One RC2 production run. [25] Adam reported final results of the Milkymist One RC2 run - we learnt a lot, and in the end 35 out of 40 boards passed all tests. [26] Xué In the #qi-hardware IRC channel, we decided to move the Aptina CMOS image sensor to a separate daughterboard, using the same expansion header that was already planned for Xué. --Qi team 20:30, 1 January 2011 (EST) [Less]