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RockboxPlayerV1 - Free/Open hardware audio player for Rockbox

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casainho:
Hello notlistening :-)

I am right now trying to build one bootstrap for Olimex dev. board with ARM9. My actual task is to prepare and test the bootstrap with the already tested flash led code. In the end, the flash led code will be changed by the Rockbox bootloader. Finally, Rockbox bootloader will read from one SD card FAT32 filesystem, the Rockbox firmware + data audio files.

About flash memory, I agree with you, for example, I had been hacking in Asus netbook eee pc 701 in past months and now I am with other one, the Acer aspire one -- both don't have HD, just flash drives :-)

Well, we need a lot of help to make this idea grow, of one Open hardware/firmware audio recorder/player.

I did add you to msn - my e-mail, msn, gtalk: casainho at_gmail.com

notlistening:
Hi All,

To all those people from before that have been put off helping out on this project please reconsider. I have now started helping, have a barebones development board and have been dedicating significant amounts of time to this project.

I am learning from a very basic level in a wide variety of areas and in all honesty we have a lot of gaps in our skill sets.  I understand that to begin with we are trying to ease the prototyping as much as possible and that has lead to some decisions about hardware, ie the screen. From a base we can implement a better LCD but at the moment not knowing how to do it for the first time we want it to be a little bit less stressful.

The hardware used will be be open to debate and the hardware manufacture will have significant sway in the end. Discussion and ideas are very welcome as we do not have all the answers. What works for me doesn't work for everyone, but more choice is better than none.

If we get a player developed then it paves the way in the future for rapid development as hardware evolves. So please do not get disheartened any help is good help.

If there is anyone with experience of ARM 9 development from scratch that might be able to anwer a few questions can you PM me.

Also if people are interested in learning up to what I know i can give some useful pointers :).

The most important thing that will come out of this project is a ARM 9 based rockbox port that can be implemented with differing hardware, screens, buttons, scrolly things, memory interfaces etc etc.

Tom
 

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