April 2009

bt eframe progress

I've just uploaded the latest code to code.google.com. It is still incomplete, and I've discovered several annoyances with the thing: 1. You must send a broadcast message to locate the eframes; you ca…

Binaural rig

Here's what I recorded the previous post with: So that consists of: - Middle: 80Gb Ipod - Left: Belkin TuneTalk stereo ipod recording addon thing - Bottom: Mic preamp - Top left: binaural headset I bo…

The way home

Ladies and gentlemen, experience the thrills of three minutes of the way home (4Mb mp3) in full binaural surround sound. Warning: may not actually be very interesting, as I'm only just getting going a…

BT Eframe 1000 progress

I held off on the firmware dumping for a day or so and concentrated on the network protocol. I've implemented the protocol basics in python and can now search for frames, and read the storage and syst…

Mysterious pads identified

I hate seeing things like this on boards: Its obviously got pads for DIP switches of some sort, but its mysteriously unpopulated! Luckily, searching for "Innolux" and "CPT" reveals they're competing L…

BT eFrame 1000

Just received my BT eframe 1000 this afternoon; set it up in the office to play with a bit :) Anyway, first order of work when I got home was to open the thing and have a look. This guy has already do…

Style update

Finally got round to updating the style on my journal; I think it looks much cleaner now. I also enabled non-LJ-user comments etc. More documentation added to pypickit, including some nice diagrams: I…

pypickit

I've just created a project on google code so my python pickit code is in a public place for others to use. Currently it supports the Microchip PicKit2 ICD device, and has libraries for talking to Cam…