On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:53 PM, G=F6khan SEVER <gstr2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> And could you please mention some about the inner workings of this cool
> device :)
>
> You said that the app soft will be open, what about the hardware and
> firmware ?
>

The hardware is a Marvell processor running Linux.  I don't think the
hardware will be open, but the software could probably be made to run
on a Linux (or other UNIX-like) PDA or smartphone without major
changes.

The major peripherals are a GPS receiver, barometric altitude sensor,
and the ANT radio.  None of these require firmware.  They are
connected by normal serial ports.   We are not allowed to open-source
the ANT communications protocol, so there is a little closed-source
daemon that talks to the ANT radio and presents data in an XML format
on an IP socket.  It would be within the capabilities of many on this
list to replace this closed-source daemon with a reverse-engineered
one, but Quarq will not be helping with that.

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
markrages@midwesttelecine.com

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