[Therion] distox

[Andrew Atkinson]

Bluetooth connection was a problem on one of the DistoX I have, 
sometimes it worked other times it did not ( as luck would have it, 
generally went I had taken it caving.) In the end the problem was the BT 
in the distoX, so we had to send it back to get a new one soldered on

Andrew

Wookey wrote:
> +++ marco corvi [2010-04-16 09:07 +0200]:
>> On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 04:49 +0100, Wookey wrote:
>> ...
>>> Here is a calib file. This one had 2 legs missing so has couple of
>>> extra 'downs' at the end. Not sure if that's fatal. If not could you
>>> send me back a set of numbers 
>> hi wookey,
>>
>> attached are the calibration coeffs of your disto.
>> calibration shots are well distributed over the directions.
>> max error is about 0.5 deg.
>> did not play to get it lower.
> 
> Thanx Marco. Beat's article on how to do the sums has now been
> published inthe CREG journal (I have a copy in front of me). So that
> means you can release the code and include it in topolinux.
> 
> I had some trouble getting bluetooth to work with the distoX and my
> openmoko and then failed to get topolinux to run with the version of
> stdlibc++ installed and actually talk to the bluetooth serial device,
> so I took my netbook underground to experiment with instead, but then
> failed to get bluetooth association even though it had been working
> justfine the evening before.
> 
> So I didn't get to try it underground usefully. But I can see that
> some changes to the interface would be helpful. Hopefully I'll have
> some more time to work on it in order to get it going usefully for this
> summer's expo.
> 
> Wookey