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Gigabeat Dock.
Mad Cow:
--- Quote from: Chronon on May 10, 2007, 02:52:10 PM ---What connections seem worthwhile for such a dock? We have no access to line in -- which, according to my understanding, is what prevents recording on the Gigabeats. We can connect to line-out and provide a connection to the USB port for the Gigabeat to act as a device (not host). Power, obviously. . . But this just starts to sound like the stock cradle that came with the device. What other functionality can we gain?
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I'm pretty sure that we have almost fully digital connections to the CPU and DAC, so we can pretty much do anything we want with the right hardware in the dock.
toffe:
Mad
--- Quote --- I'm pretty sure that we have almost fully digital connections to the CPU and DAC, so we can pretty much do anything we want with the right hardware in the dock.
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You are right, we just need the good hardware to do it
Once again check the pinout of the connector there
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigabeatPortPins
and the custom dock project there :
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigabeatCustomdock
and welcome if you want help us
Mad Cow:
--- Quote from: toffe on May 10, 2007, 04:17:53 PM ---Mad
--- Quote --- I'm pretty sure that we have almost fully digital connections to the CPU and DAC, so we can pretty much do anything we want with the right hardware in the dock.
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You are right, we just need the good hardware to do it
Once again check the pinout of the connector there
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigabeatPortPins
and the custom dock project there :
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigabeatCustomdock
and welcome if you want help us
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I wish I could help, but I can't really do anything useful for this project apart from soldering stuff and testing.
Chronon:
I can stuff a circuit board, but I'm missing some key pieces in understanding how to get all of the info that we want into separate lines from the pins presented to us in the dock. How do we get access to the other "Ports" listed on that PortPins page? Do we have to demux signals that come out of the dock?
Mad Cow:
--- Quote from: Chronon on May 10, 2007, 09:20:25 PM ---I can stuff a circuit board, but I'm missing some key pieces in understanding how to get all of the info that we want into separate lines from the pins presented to us in the dock. How do we get access to the other "Ports" listed on that PortPins page? Do we have to demux signals that come out of the dock?
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I'm guessing you'll need a processor to convert between signal types.
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