Orrery
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The orrery is a simple application for the openmoko platform which displays the night sky. It is nothing like as elaborate as, for example Google Sky or xephem. It is intended to be a small application that will have a storage footprint comparable to a ringtone, or one of the games bundled with the | The orrery is a simple application for the openmoko platform which displays the night sky. It is nothing like as elaborate as, for example Google Sky or xephem. It is intended to be a small application that will have a storage footprint comparable to a ringtone, or one of the games bundled with the | ||
| − | openmoko rootfs. It requires no network connection, but does use the GPS information, by querying gpsd. | + | openmoko rootfs. It requires no network connection, but does use the GPS information, by querying gpsd.<p> |
<img src="wiki.openmoko.org/images/1/16/OrreryImage1.png"> | <img src="wiki.openmoko.org/images/1/16/OrreryImage1.png"> | ||
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The orrery is a simple application for the openmoko platform which displays the night sky. It is nothing like as elaborate as, for example Google Sky or xephem. It is intended to be a small application that will have a storage footprint comparable to a ringtone, or one of the games bundled with the openmoko rootfs. It requires no network connection, but does use the GPS information, by querying gpsd.<p> <img src="wiki.openmoko.org/images/1/16/OrreryImage1.png">
