Total Open Station on the FreeRunner
Total Open Station is software designed to allow Total Station users to download data from their machines without any proprietary software. Written in Perl it's cross platform and portable. The command line application ran straight out of the box on the FreeRunner and with the help of one of the the authors, Luca Bianconi, I've got the helper GUI running on the FreeRunner too.
It's perfect for the less computers, more computing approach I want to take. The idea's simple:
The FreeRunner has a USB host port; you simply plug your phone into the Total Station, download the data and send it over the mobile network to our survey database in the office. No computers, no messing about, just data from the field to the office ASAP. We don't have to worry about laptops and the like; everyone will have the tools necessary to get the job done.
It's just one example of the empowerment provided by ubiquitous digital tools.
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Posted by Oomesh on June 03, 2008 at 02:23 PM BST #
[Trackback] Joseph Reeves has showed us something that wasn't even planned when we started the Total Open Station project.
He had our “helper” application running on the OpenMoko FreeRunner. A few words from his blog post are enough to get the (beatiful) idea:
Posted by IOSA.it on June 11, 2008 at 05:37 AM BST #