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If you are into hacking and modding, here’s the chance for you to start thinking on how you can connect the Nokia N900 to any device that you love, and possibly get your project funded by Nokia.
"The brief is simple: tell us how you would hack and mod the N900 & Maemo to connect the N900 to something you love. An expert judging panel will be selecting winning submissions and the groups behind them will receive N900 devices, funding and support to develop their PUSH idea. And once they’re complete, we’ll share them with the rest of the world with a series of installations in Nokia Flagship Stores across the globe."
More info: http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/
Sample projects: http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/hacking-80s-gadgets-with-the-nokia-n900-push-n900-london-launch.html
I thought about PUSHing, but the site seems to be broken. All the links in the navbar show the same page with "Nokia PUSH N900. Now open for submissions.." in the subject. Tried with Firefox & Opera.
peterjb31
2009-09-15, 07:51
Now the site is coming up with 404 errors when you try to sumbit an idea.
What a great project idea!
I am certainly going to write-in.
At the price Nokia are charging for this device, there'd better a "Find My N900" service, like the iPhone users have from MobileMe.
Great idea and good luck to anyone going for it. One thing I notice though is the deadline seems tight for individual entrants...
In a conversation with Tinker.it CEO Alex Deschamps-Sonsino after the demo, we were told that it took a group of 7 designers around 3 weeks to come up with the 4 objects – so with any luck, participants in PUSH N900 should be able to push the phone to its limits by October 5th.
...that's (7 x 3) / 4 = ~5 weeks per designer per object. And there's only 3 wks to Oct 5th... and entrants might only have one head :-)
benny1967
2009-09-15, 09:04
with all the "error 404"-pages all over the site, i'm almost 100% sure this thng was designed by the same people who are responsible for ovi.com.
The Official Hackers Guide has been released, showing how to connect the N900 to the Arduino:
http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/PUSH_N900_Hackers_guidev1.0.pdf
Nice!
timsamoff
2009-09-15, 15:50
The Official Hackers Guide has been released, showing how to connect the N900 to the Arduino:
http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/PUSH_N900_Hackers_guidev1.0.pdf
Nice!
WOW. :D
Tim
sachin007
2009-09-15, 16:15
Cool stuff
http://tinker.it/now/2009/09/15/rewind-rethinking-old-school-devices-using-the-nokia-n900/
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
jthiemann
2009-09-17, 18:51
I just noticed the N900 got a mention on the MAKE magazine blog, http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/hackers_friend_the_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" :D 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...
JayMontano
2009-09-17, 19:05
If anyone's interested, here's the entire video of the
N900 Push Workshop last Sunday. (http://mynokiablog.com/2009/09/17/video-nokia-n900-push-workshop-hacking-back-to-the-80s/)
with intro of the N900, Gary Birkett and the Tinker peeps.
The PUSH project has been mentioned before (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31670), 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/index.php/submit-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
http://www.zdez.org/thumb/RamMountFar.jpg
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 :)
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.
I don't know if anyone's seen what a sales box for the N900 looks like, except maybe that set of pictures of the Indonesian one. And that was probably an N900 proto combined with another N-Series box.
All that being said, a mount isn't listed in the box contents (http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/specifications/).
Box Contents
* Nokia N900
* Nokia Battery (BL-5J)
* Nokia High Efficiency Charger (AC-10)
* Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-205)
* Video out cable (CA-75U)
* Nokia charger adaptor (CA-146C)
* Cleaning cloth
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