Using a nook for xcsoar

I've rooted a Nook and installed XCSoar, per the instructions on Robs Wiki page. I flew last weekend with a serial-to-USB cable ported to my CAI-302. The display is awsome and completely readable in direct sunlight!

My fondest wish is that a version of XCSoar might come available that is grey-scaled, to make it more compatible with the E-Ink display.

Thanks Rob!

Mike Hostage

wrote:
My fondest wish is that a version of XCSoar might come available that is grey-scaled, to make it more compatible with the E-Ink display.

What you can do:

- write a feature request ticket in the XCSoar bug tracker:

http://bugs.xcsoar.org/newticket

Write as exactly as possible what you wish XCSoar to do in the
presence of a grey-scale display.

- collect donations to buy an E-Ink device for an active XCSoar
developer

- motivate somebody to join the XCSoar team and to implement your
ideas; this is the most important part, because time is the most
difficult limit we have to deal with, and more brains means more
wishes come true!

At 14:15 16 October 2012, Max Kellermann wrote:
wrote:
My fondest wish is that a version of XCSoar might come available that
is
grey-scaled, to make it more compatible with the E-Ink display.

What you can do:

- write a feature request ticket in the XCSoar bug tracker:

http://bugs.xcsoar.org/newticket

Write as exactly as possible what you wish XCSoar to do in the
presence of a grey-scale display.

- collect donations to buy an E-Ink device for an active XCSoar
developer

- motivate somebody to join the XCSoar team and to implement your
ideas; this is the most important part, because time is the most
difficult limit we have to deal with, and more brains means more
wishes come true!




Yea right!

My fondest wish is that a version of XCSoar might come available that is grey-scaled, to make it more compatible with the E-Ink display.

There's ongoing development to the Nook's kernel at xda-developers to display screen colors as dithered shades of gray automatically. This solution will allow color applications (e.g. XCSoar) to work without color modification on the Nook's EInk screen.

Rob

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:13:59 AM UTC-5, wrote:
My fondest wish is that a version of XCSoar might come available that is grey-scaled, to make it more compatible with the E-Ink display.



There's ongoing development to the Nook's kernel at xda-developers to display screen colors as dithered shades of gray automatically. This solution will allow color applications (e.g. XCSoar) to work without color modification on the Nook's EInk screen.

I asked the CN team a while ago why they were not using eink, as it offers obvious low power and sunlight readability advantages. Their answer was that the refresh rate was too slow for a modern flight computer. FYI,
John Cochrane