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Gigabeat Dock.
roemann:
I found a good source for the cell phone sync cables with the connector that fits the Gigabeat if anyone wants to try to build a dock.
http://www.thepocketsolution.com/PSI-657.html
They are only 9.95 plus 3.00 for S&H. I bought two and they are really easy to disassemble--just need small screw driver. Still have to do a little desoldering though.
Chronon:
That might be helpful. I would prefer a connector that can be attached to a circuit board, however.
On a side note, I tried to download the kicad binaries to have a play with laying out a board but I can only find the linux binaries. I am missing the winexe directory. Perhaps I need to get a previous release.
toffe:
Chronon,
Kicad download is here : http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/cao/
choose the zip or install file : vendredi 25 mai 2007 12:00 70175641 kicad-2007-05-25.zip
vendredi 25 mai 2007 12:37 78104750 KiCad-2007-05-25-WinXP_autoinstall.zip
Chronon:
Thanks toffe!
BTW, I'm probably most interested in getting TV out working from the dock. It seems like the i2c drivers are ready so we can send the output from Mpegplayer to i2c if someone codes this. It seems like we will need a chip to encode into PAL/NTSC, correct?
I've got it installed properly now. I'll start playing with this and see how it goes. It seems like a logical first step is just a breakout board for bridging the signals to a proto-board for testing.
Phalangees:
This all sounds awesome!! Great work guys.
Something I would really like to see is a simple gigabeat to ipod dock connector and drivers so ipod accessories can be used with a rockboxed gigabeat. If I had the knowledge to do something like that I would do it... but I don't. :P
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