Archive For August, 2007

Chicken Scheme interpreter packaged for OpenMoko

I finally took a look at ipkg and have packaged the Chicken Scheme interpreter for OpenMoko. From your phone simply run: ipkg install http://zedstar.org/ipk/chicken-scheme-interpreter_2.6_armv4t.ipk It takes a bit of time to download as 1) this server is dog slow 2) this ADSL link is extremely ropey! A mirror of the package can now be found [...]

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Cross compilation with Chicken and the OpenMoko tools

Currently I have both the 2007.1 and the 2007.2 OpenMoko development environments working on my PC. There is a new GUI in 2007.2 and I have yet to really experiement with it. My phone is stilled flashed with 2007.1 and I see no need to change as everything I use is working. With the 2007.1 [...]

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Client running on phone

I managed to build my thumbtribes client for my OpenMoko phone. Building the application was a lot more straight forward than I thought it might be. This is really due to the excellent cross compilation-aware Chicken compiler.  The phone client seems to run smoothly and does not hog memory or CPU.  This is an important [...]

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OpenMoko pics

Here you can find a picture of my OpenMoko phone next to various other gadgets I own. There is also a screenshot of the Chicken Scheme interpreter running on my phone. I will post more about that soon.

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First impressions of my OpenMoko Neo1973

The phone is smaller and lighter than I thought it would be. It will fit nicely in my jeans pocket. Out of the box it comes with a functioning boot loader which can be used to flash the latest kernel and root filesystem onto the device. The phone then boots into a basic GUI with [...]

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