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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
scharkalvin:
--- Quote ---I must say that Atmel don't have good Open Source programmer and debug tools as ARM. I moved on and now I prefer to work with ARM7 (also from Atmel) than with AVR.
But I prefer Atmel over Microchip or others, Atmel gives good datasheets and example source codes.
Anyway, it's easier to port Rockbox to an ARM because some code was done in ARM assembly, etc.
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Well in the 8 bit arena, Atmel does have the best support for open source tools IMHO. Their ARM32 isn't as well supported, but then it hasn't been available for as long as the ARM family(s). If only the ARM9 development boards weren't so expensive!
So is anybody working on a rockbox specific circuit board layout for the player? There will be a groundswell of interest in this as soon as it's possible to purchase some hardware ready to go.
casainho:
Edit on 2008.02.07:
I got the bootloader working ;-) -- domonoky were helping me on this days, on the SD Card read problems and now is all ok. Next tasks is to build a working firmware file. Even we must drill and assembly our own expansion board and put buttons and audio stereo codec IC working...
This image shows the bootloader right after loading the firmware file from SD Card and ready to run it :-) -- go to read more on wiki project page.
--- Quote from: scharkalvin on February 04, 2009, 07:54:57 AM ---
--- Quote ---I must say that Atmel don't have good Open Source programmer and debug tools as ARM. I moved on and now I prefer to work with ARM7 (also from Atmel) than with AVR.
But I prefer Atmel over Microchip or others, Atmel gives good datasheets and example source codes.
Anyway, it's easier to port Rockbox to an ARM because some code was done in ARM assembly, etc.
--- End quote ---
Well in the 8 bit arena, Atmel does have the best support for open source tools IMHO. Their ARM32 isn't as well supported, but then it hasn't been available for as long as the ARM family(s). If only the ARM9 development boards weren't so expensive!
So is anybody working on a rockbox specific circuit board layout for the player? There will be a groundswell of interest in this as soon as it's possible to purchase some hardware ready to go.
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I also work all days with AVR, and I like them and the availability of Open Source programmers, the AVR-GCC, the AVR-Lib, etc. Unfortunately there is not yet any Open Source debugger for the DebugWire devices.
No, no one is... we are using the dev. board and we just need to add buttons + DAC audio IC to it. LCD is a module from Olimex, it just plugs on dev. board. Alex already designed that expansion using KiCAD, the files are on a message of our discussion group. I didn't have time yet to look at them...
I hope that Olimex or other company wants to build and sell the hardware on their online shops and distributers. I were talking with Olimex about this and there is good perspectives... and like that, maybe we will not need to design our circuit, test it, etc.
froggyman:
sorry if this was already posted a while ago(i didnt look through all of the 36 threads lol) , but is there a build( i mean the actual player) of this that works fully or is it still in prototype/alpha build?
If it is availible where might i be able to by it and for how much???
again sorry if this has been posted, i would just think it would be kool to have a player that very few people would have
casainho:
--- Quote from: froggyman on February 07, 2009, 09:43:35 PM ---sorry if this was already posted a while ago(i didnt look through all of the 36 threads lol) , but is there a build( i mean the actual player) of this that works fully or is it still in prototype/alpha build?
If it is availible where might i be able to by it and for how much???
again sorry if this has been posted, i would just think it would be kool to have a player that very few people would have
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Hello :-)
No, for now we are just working hard on a prototype... you can get all the information here (we are updating it regularly:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxPlayer
Thank you for your interest. We are aiming to make it available to buy online trough various other companies.
froggyman:
kool, i deffinately think that after my iPod Video(5.5G) dies on me (hopefully not within the near future) that this might be made my replacement for it.
my only worry is that it isnt going to be hard drive based or support video( 2 important things i will consider before i buy a player, my next one needs to have over 30GB). So that might make me choose a Cowon player(like the O2, plus this one has SD support, upto 32GB), I guess i will just have to wait and see what the final product becomes!
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