James' Tech Blog

So I decided to get smaller buttons for my iNoPhone. I had to unsolder the old buttons which wasn’t hard. The new buttons are smaller in diameter so it was harder to get them secured to the plastic face. There’s a blurry Katrina in the background.

I tested all the buttons and they seem to work. It’s a lot lower profile. If you lay it like it originally would be it looks almost like a regular mouse. I almost got some really small tactile switches, but I thought they might be too short.

The latest fashions!

It’s almost the same size as my HTC Hero.

A comparison with Katrina, she’s a pretty big cat though!

Other updates on first post:

Charging works, I’ve done it a couple times now. The speaker/mic aren’t the best, but I think I just need more holes in the face plate.

Just poking around Chromium pages (you know “Google ChromeOS”) and found some interesting stuff. They have a page about building the OS http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/portage-based-build First the URL says it all Portage based build. Later in the page they have emerge-<board_name>. Then about ebuilds and their chromium-overlay.

Does it actually use Gentoo? I’m not sure what their overlay has, but it seems like they are using Portage to build and maybe some Gentoo patches along the way. Check out the part about dependencies. It clearly has eselect ebuilds and gentoo-syntax for vim. Also, core-utils with -vanilla USE flag (as in include Gentoo patches). Why use Portage though? Especially since the user already has a working system and can install missing dependencies. Why not use Paludis? Well Google isn’t the only ones to ever use Portage in their project. I believe Openembedded’s bitbake is Portage based also.

Anyways, way to go Gentoo! Helping the world reach a brighter tomorrow!