This is not the first time, I break a USB Drive. And I already heard some people complaining about the same stuff. But how is this possible ? Even if I use it a lot, memory and micro-controller are robust you know, no special reason for a failure (except of course some anormal write, but [...]
Tags: diy, usb
admin April 30th, 2008
Some friends buy me a nice MP3 player for my car last year (birthday): LAC-M6500R
This stuff looks great and you can even plug a hard-drive. The main issue is that the firmware only support 999 files on a single USB device, so that’s enougth for ~4Go of MP3 but not more. So I decided to [...]
Tags: audio, hack, mp3, usb
admin March 4th, 2007
Not really, but this nice Tux droid, can be pluged in USB, and the commands are sent via a Python DBUS binding. Hum a stupid question, can we use the Python USB API directly ?
With time, Python really became a powerfull tool for hardware hackers :) That’s perhaps why I like it so much ?
Tags: gadget, Python, usb
admin August 10th, 2006
This is quite easy, but the doc is too old.. so:
Download latest eagle-usb
Untar
make
make install
eagleconfig (to enter your config..)
rm /etc/init.d/eagle-usb (this doesn’t work on debian ..)
eaglectl -w (to load kernel modules and so on..)
startadsl
Tags: dsl, modem, usb
admin August 10th, 2004