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aUSBusing

September 19, 2009 at 4:02 am · Filed under geek, hardware, life, planet, sorry for my english

When your laptop is being repaired (and it’s still there, since August 28) you need imaginative ways to be connected.

Here is my Nokia N800 as something near to a desktop computer.

Just few notices:

  • life battery is really short when you plug too many things to the USB interface.
  • usbcontrol rules
  • solder a female-female USB adapter is easy and funny (it came from a broken motherboard)
  • after some weeks using Maemo, ideas about developing applications to it come to my mind
  • the mail client and the browser included with Maemo suck
  • my ocular health is being damaged

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9 Comments

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Comment by pptxo
2009-09-19 05:07:31

No me creo que te hayas plantado así en la ekoparty :-)

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Comment by luciano
2009-09-19 11:25:32

Intenté jugar al CTF con esto. Fue obviamente imposible…

 
 
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Comment by chellomere
2009-09-19 23:17:00

This is awesome :D

 
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Comment by nicolas pace
2009-09-21 05:14:29

jaja!
que grande!
quien te habra iluminado :P
slds

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Comment by luciano
2009-09-22 10:29:39

SII!! como me olvidé de darte ese mérito!? Gracias por hacerme conocer usbcontrol!

 
 
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Comment by Jon
2009-09-21 07:24:00

Nice stuff! Agreed re: the maemo mail client. “Modest” was ok, but I guess you can use mutt fine with a full size keyboard like this. You remind me I need to sort my n800 out to sell.

 
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Comment by John Hughes
2009-09-21 13:34:37

my ocular health is being damaged

You need a big Fresnel lens to stick in front of the screen.

(this was a joke about Brazil, (the film), but then I ran across this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magnifying-fresnel-lens.jpg )

 
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Comment by JuanM
2010-10-28 17:38:05

Increíbleee
jajaja

 

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