[Gta04-owner] Status GTA04A5

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,
here a brief status update:

* components have all arrived, except one
* the one is a new one which IMHO compensates for waiting some more days!

Thanks to generous support by Bosch Sensortec we got an option to buy the
BNO055 intelligent 9-axis Absolute Orientation Sensor, which includes sensors
and sensor fusion in a single package. It combines an accelerometer (position),
gyroscope (rotation speed) and compass (absolute position) and a microcontroller
in a single package. All data can be read through I2C.

So this means we directly get the orientation data e.g. for Replicant games and
augmented reality (which needs a working camera...) right from this chip and do
not need to run complex algorithms on our own.

	https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/bst/products/all_products/bno055

This chip will be installed in addition to the BMC150 and BMG160 (because we
already have bought them). And, the BME280.

We have already tested this chip on a Pyra handheld prototype mainboard which
also has place for it and we have got someone who has written a first kernel driver:

	http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/work/test/bno055

It is not perfect yet, but shows that the sensor will work.

All this mens that thanks to Bosch support, we will very soon have a very modern
orientation sensor in our open smartphone platform.

BR,
Nikolaus