Been working on power usage this week with excellent progress. Was able to get consumption low enough for 10ish days with a 6000 mah lithium battery.
Tested with a paging app that displays .bmp files in order. I put a freely distributable first aid pdf that I converted on the sdcard to view. It works great. I’ll do some better processing of the pdf to bmp prices, but it’s going to be included on Scout. I’ll publish my conversion process and you can put your own stuff on there too
Scout can save your most recent location between power interruptions or off there is no gps signal. Scout displays your last known location centered on the map until you have gps signal again.
There are new “Mobile Atlas” maps to test as well as the 1st case draft.
More soon!
Making breadcrumbs with random motion. If the random trail gets too close to an edge, it resets in the center of the screen.
Testing what will become the breadcrumbs functionality over the map.
Doing some test code on the epaper display via Conrad’s Game of Life.