This is the product: http://www.brookstone.com/digital-photo-keychain-viewer.html?his=2~46337~2~root_category%40kwd~keychain
2009/9/25 Eli Marmor <mar...@netmask.it>: > Thanks Noam. > > Can you try to find the name of the product, or at least the name of > the project? > > Noam Rathaus wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I investigated one of them awhile ago there was a Open Source project >> to communicate with them, I remember it was very product specific, but >> it worked with my Borders keychain - which I don't know the actual >> product name. >> >> 2009/9/24 Ori Idan <o...@helicontech.co.il>: >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:51:28AM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >> >> > Do you know all those trendy Digital Photo Keychains? >> >> > These cute and tiny digital frames that are sold for 49-79 NIS and are >> >> > charged and fed by photos from a PC through USB? >> >> > >> >> > Well, I've always was sure that they use the standard flash disk >> >> > protocol with the computer, like all the other players (MP3, MP4, etc.) >> >> > and that their disk looks as a drive for your OS and you can just manage >> >> > the files there (copy/rename/remove/etc.) just like any other directory >> >> > or folder. >> >> > >> >> > I was amazed to find out that these devices require a special software >> >> > to manage them. >> >> > >> >> > It means that they don't work with Linux, most of them don't work with >> >> > MAC too, and that even the thousands software packages which were >> >> > developed for Windows (!) can't access them (because they are not like >> >> > "drives" with normal "files", but just a black box which only the user >> >> > can access and only through the special software). >> >> > >> >> > Since there are hundreds of models, I can't believe that all of them >> >> > use this crazy was of working and that none uses the standard flash >> >> > disk protocol. >> >> > >> >> > I'll be glad to hear models that use the standard protocol (like all of >> >> > the MP3, MP4, disk-on-key, etc.). >> >> >> >> Any idea what it would take to reflash one of those with a nicer >> >> firmware? >> >> >> > >> > To rewrite the firmware one must know the processor used there, it's memory >> > map, amount of memory, peripheral addresses etc. >> > I don't think it's easy to do. >> > >> > -- >> > Ori Idan > > -- > Eli Marmor > mar...@netmask.it > CEO, Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. > __________________________________________________________ > Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. > Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 > Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
