Matt said we needed a pic of the entire player, so here's one :)
Our mission: To create CD-based MP3 players using old computer parts. These players ultimately should work with a small input device (other than a bulky keyboard) and without a monitor. They should boot from a small drive (in this case a ATA Flashcard), run off a minimal amount of RAM (4-8MB), and require no other storage space (hard drives). This will allow players to be turned off at any point without loss of data.
| 11/21/00 Not much new |
| - Matt wants everyone to know that he fixed all the bugs we
found a long time ago like a couple days after the last report, and he
also made the title scroll back then too. I was so excited I forgot
to say that back then... then I got busy with school and all that fun
stuff! So there ya go Matt now you can stop bugging me about
updating this :P - So the player looks like it did a couple weeks ago. We need to find a smaller power supply and a case for it. That's about all we need besides the numeric keypad and it's ready for intense beta testing! Hopefully this will all come together soon. :) |
| 11/8/00 Linux on Flash |
| - Matt got Linux to boot from the flash card. When
installing a OS on the card it's important to treat the card like a hard
drive, not a floppy drive. This means the card needs to be
partitioned and formatted before installing a OS :) Other than that
nothing else new. Now time to look for more bugs and debug, and wait
for Matt to make the MP3 title scroll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I've been bugging
him to do that one for awhile).
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| 11/7/00 Flash Card Adaptor arrives |
| - Been busy with classes lately. Matt fixed most of
the bugs found in the last version. Player will now randomly stop
after finishing certain songs, but that's the only bug found so far. - Waiting on IDE-CompactFlash adaptor to arrive from Australia - should be here any day now. - Still need to find something to put this thing in. Also depends on if/when the video card can be removed and the player still take keyboard input. - The adaptor arrived today, so Matt and I had to play with it of course. Matt is having trouble getting it to boot Linux correctly, so I put my DOS version of the player on the card and it booted fine, so the cards ARE bootable. Here's a pic of the adaptor. |
