December 2007

Wii console finally hacked!

Cooooool!! Some guys have a video of it here. In summary: - Boot Wii in Gamecube mode (which only allows access to certain areas of memory/ GC compatable hardware). However, you can still run custom G…

Linux Ricoh XD support

... is coming along nicely! I've disassembled about 75% of the driver now, and can talk to XD cards and receive the expected responses. The hardware interface is slightly more complex than the simple…

Abrasive waterjet machining

As I currently can't sleep AGAIN due to reading too many interesting things AGAIN and then thinking too much, here is ANOTHER interesting thing. Soon no one will sleep! :) A friend sent me this page a…

Ricoh media reader under linux

Oh dear, oh dear, looks like I'm finally back to reverse engineering things again. The media reader in my new laptop supports MMC/SD/MemoryStick/XD cards. However under linux, only SD cards are suppor…