There of course is this problem of why would I give my $$$ device such a treatment.

Anyway the project I currently play with involves creating new firmware for the http://www.saleae.com/logic/ analyzer. It must be possible to hook it up to the nXXX to create one of the following:
-A simple quiz game where everybody has a button they can press buttons
-Some radical input device (gloves?)

But what really give me a warm feeling is the a application like http://elisator.garage.maemo.org/ that would require hardware.

More photos & videos of the PUSH N900 workshop: http://www.valeriovalerio.org/?p=275

I just noticed the N900 got a mention on the MAKE magazine blog, http://blog.makezine.com/archive/200..._new_n900.html, mentioning "PUSH" http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/index.php/what-is-push/, and interaction of the N900 and Arduino.

There is also the tantalizing "Win devices and funding" that makes me try to come up with some ideas... since at this point as a grad student, I can't afford to actually pay for a N900 out of my own pocket :-(

Anyways, searching just now, I see N900 PUSH being mentioned on Maemo Talk, but I didn't see it on ITT...

If anyone's interested, here's the entire video of the

N900 Push Workshop last Sunday.

with intro of the N900, Gary Birkett and the Tinker peeps.

The PUSH project has been mentioned before, but it is nice to see it get a mention on MAKE.

I was quite disappointed when I read through the Hackers Guide. You could do the same thing with any of the tablets; there's nothing N900 specific there.

I want to see projects that use the new features of the N900. Accelerometers! IR port! Cell phone! That kind of stuff. The 3D camera thing was a good idea, but the talk-n-text could use Google Voice and the DialCentral code to do the same thing on an N800.

Your page says "See here for a list of support we’ll provide" from

http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/inde...ubmit-an-idea/

"here" is not a link so I assume you are vagrants as there is no visible means of support?

My n810 is talking to my arduino (via bluetooth!) already:

http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=17018



7-segment since the cpu/graphics are more limited.

I just read the hacker's guide. I could have written it - better.

I'm using the Arduino pro-mini (if you check out the link). Plus an accelerometer, GPS, and bluetooth. That has been running for a while. It reads all those (the GPS is 10Hz with WAAS/SBAS) the j1850 stream AND my radar detector (valentine v1).

Use parani bluetooth modules from sena.com instead of blue smirf (easier, smaller, and I think cost less).

In the image, the blackberry square is a A2DP bluetooth gateway to my docNrock. The n900 would have that built-in and have better graphics.

tz1: You should substitute the N900 for the N810 and submit that Harley Hack to PUSH. It meets all the requirements, especially the bit about connecting the device to something that you love

I intend to. The color scheme of the n900 goes well with my night-train and getting one free would be a good idea.

Do they have a GPS mount in the box for the n900 like they did for the 810 and 810WM?

Of course they require a microsoft word or pdf format description, so I have some editing and conversion to do.