Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Yomping for young ones http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/content/on10/entries/previewsmall/18137.jpg Channel 9 - Yomping for young ones My On10 blog is getting a bit rusty so I thought I'd better tell you want I did this weekend. I yomped 52 miles. 'Yomped'? Yeah, British Army term for walking over difficult terrain or with a heavy load. Ok so, the terrain I walked wasn't that difficult and I was only carrying a day pack - but I did cover 52 miles in two days walking for 19 hours in total.Why? To raise money for a local pre-school.Why is this relevant to a tech site? Because I wrote a nice little app for my Windows Mobile 6 Smart phone that automated the taking of pictures, geo-tagging them from Bluetooth GPS, posted them to my site and displayed them using Virtual Earth on my blog.The app worked well, the GPRS/EDGE service worked just as well, and the GPS near perfectly.  Shame the phone batteries weren't made for the task. I had to manually activate the Phone's GPS comms in the end because keeping the Bluetooth channel open sucked the batteries almost dry in the first 4 hours, and my solar powered Free Loader just couldn't source enough power to recharge my phone.But, the people at home could watch my progress on my site, and I have a great record of my walk.We're also on route to raise nearly £4000 for the local pre-school, which is well worth my sore and swollen feet. en Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:33:42 GMT Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:33:42 GMT Rev9 Re: Yomping for young ones Outstanding work my friend. What combination of Bluetooth and mobile did you use to do this sort of thing?

posted by JD Lewin

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/paulfo/Yomping-for-young-ones#c633185753240000000 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:08:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/paulfo/Yomping-for-young-ones#c633185753240000000 JD Lewin