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[Jouni Helminen <jouni.helminen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep am experimenting with Snappy on Rpi, specifically for drones. Look
forward to it landing on the phone!

To use the phone as a robot brain need a GPIO breakout board though for
connecting to external sensors, gps, pwm speed controllers etc - was
wondering if anyone has hacked on this already.

Cheers
Jouni

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 17.06.2015, 10:43 +0100 schrieb Jouni Helminen:
> > Was reading the Hacker News commentary on the new RPi case, and many
> > people were wondering why not use phones for things we use RPi for,
> > since phones are very cheap now and have a lot of extra hardware built
> > in - sensors, display, connectivity.
> >
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727317
> >
> > Has anyone done any experimentation  ie. adding a USB GPIO breakout
> > board to an Ubuntu phone? using something like
> >
> > https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12633
> >
> > or
> >
> >
> http://circuitcellar.com/cc-blog/turn-your-android-device-into-an-application-tool/
> >
>
> you should take a look at ubuntu snappy then ... it will replace the
> underlying system on the phone within the next few months (latest by
> april release, likely a lot earlier) and is already used for drones and
> robotics today ... with that re-using a phone as a "robot-brain" will be
> a breeze ...
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
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