Almost posted a "Cross compiling userland" article

Yep, I had it just about ready, a nice post on how to build a proper cross-toolchain from armhf for the Raspberry Pi, but no, blogspot just had to autosave a botched copy&paste&undo that cleared the whole post.

Sigh...

RaspberryPi

I finally got my RaspberryPi !

I was on vacation when it arrived and I've been away from home most of the time, but I finally had time to play around with it. Did the the normal geek way of doing things, plugged it in and.. nothing, except red LED. A bit strange that, I was expecting something on the screen.. anyway, you must have a SD card with some boot files for it to work.

Skydiving video, recorded with Lumia 900

A slightly edited video of the jump, taken with the Lumia 900.


Sorry for the rotated view. The ad-hoc holder worked quite well.

Devaamo Summit 2012, day 2

Day 2, Thursday

The next was the proper summit day. On the walk to the New Factory I noticed this strange thingy that counts the amount of cyclist that have gone past it.

Tampere bike counter

OpenSource and TI

Qt5 on RaspberryPi (I can order mine tomorrow!)

The Qt5 on RaspeberryPi was a really awesome demonstration on QML and had the most awesome terminal I've ever seen :)

NFC Tag in lunch restaurant, the first I've ever seen live in Finland

OpenStreetMap and free Open Geodata are great opportunities / Pekka Sarkola

Then party, with Free (really) beer. Met some of the people I stalk/follow on twitter, that was nice.

Organizers are sexy :)

Thank you to the organizers, hope to see you next year (or at some other place)

Lyssna på x3m med gstreamer under Linux

A quick hint for sv_FI (or anyone else that knows Swedish) geeks that listen to Radio X3M:

gst-launch rtspsrc \
location=rtsp://stream.yle.mobi/yle/live/x3m.sdp latency=500 ! \
decodebin ! queue min-threshold-buffers=10 ! autoaudiosink


Enjoy :)

Devaamo summit 2012, day 1

It's a rare treat to have a FOSS/Opendata/etc related summit/conference in Finland so I was very happy that one was held in Tampere and that I could attend it. Devaamo Summit 2012.

Day one, Friday

I arrived on Friday, met a friend from the local hackerspace and followed the lightning talks. The most interesting of the was qmlweb, QML ported to the browser.

"ITS Factory – Open traffic interfaces for intelligent apps"

A hacked AK-47 (Wii) and a Duck Hunt remake, done by the 5w Tampere Hackerspace

Tieto, one of the sponsors, had a Tizen developers device on show. I played with it a bit. The device itself was very light, probalby explained by the lack of a GSM modem.

The UI/UX bit was fast and fluid, but lacked any kind of oooh-shiny-cool effect. But here's hoping...

Tizen developer device

Yep, it really is a Tizen device

I was a bit tired after the train and lightning talks so I walked to my hotel and relaxed for a while.

Then walked back to the New Factory area and did a "Dinner and a movie" by myself :) Watched Snow White & The Huntsman, it was ok but there was just that something missing from it.

Then to sleep!

OpenStreetMap, Google, Nokia and Bing maps

Vepsä, a tiny island in the Turku archipelago on different map services. There is an enormous difference on the amount of detail available. And on two services the island itself is missing, looks kinda silly checking in on Foursquare on Nokia devices.

Update (02.10.2012): Added screenshot from iOS 6 maps. It has at least the island in place, but not much more.

Vepsä on OpenStreetMap. Roads and trails.

Vepsä on Google. No details. But plenty of tiny islands.

But these two suck, and suck really bad. The complete island is missing.

Vepsä on Nokia maps, nowhere to be seen

Vepsä on Bing maps.. where is it ?

Apple maps in iOS 6 from iPad