A solution for the connectiong th e ipod to the psp and other devices like a pocket pc you could use a linksys router with a usb port and find a way for it to share the drive on wiwi and use that to connect to it. Anyone ever tried this ?

Posted at 8:35 pm on Oct 23rd, 2005 by sebastien

wow – hooray for making beer in a coffee pot. I’ll have to master the art of doing that. Also the video on the Photo iPod is pretty cool – although a bit useless. The coolest feature with ipod linux is the super mario brothers on the ipod.

Posted at 8:47 pm on Oct 23rd, 2005 by AHMED

for some reason hackaday seems to not be getting my tips?
http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/hackaday

Posted at 9:17 pm on Oct 23rd, 2005 by weirdguy0101

No, I’ve been getting them. This map was created by [dave kissCut]. I didn’t link to it because i figured we’d probably kill it like our original guestmap.

Posted at 9:30 pm on Oct 23rd, 2005 by Eliot Phillips

does the video for your ipod work for the nano? or does the nano not work with it because for some reason?? man that would be sweet to play video on my nano.

Posted at 10:56 pm on Oct 23rd, 2005 by Billy

i bought an iaudio x5 with built in USB host, it connects to the sony PSP just fine. maybe the x5 is the route some people that own the PSP should take for a digital audio player…

Posted at 11:09 pm on Oct 23rd, 2005 by Brian

Something is fishy with that auction/flash thing. It polls all video-input devices, such as webcams (which I do not have connected but the driver is still there, which is what tipped me off), and TV In cards, etc. There’s littl reason for that to happen, although there are a few nefarious things one could do to unsuspecting people with webcams…

Posted at 12:51 am on Oct 24th, 2005 by Grey hodge

Hey Grey,

Thanks for the comment about AuctionMapper. I’m not aware of anything we’re doing at all with webcams, polling, etc… On some searches we do hit a MochiBot robot so we can get stats on what searches people find useful (not storing any of your information at all, or search terms, just incrementing a counter). Could this be what you’re seeing?

We don’t want it to look like anything nefarious even might be happening! Just want to make searching eBay work better.

Feel free to comment or post to our forum (no login needed).

Thanks,

Gary

Posted at 10:00 am on Oct 24th, 2005 by Gary

cool thing with the ebay mapper but whenever i look up another item it sticks a pushpin in on the first item i looked at no matter if im looking at laptops or ferrari or 10 lcd’s

real cool though i have it bookmarked!!

dm

Posted at 10:17 am on Oct 24th, 2005 by digitalmaddog

DM,

Thanks for kind words about AuctionMapper and for alerting us to the problem with the pins.

If you can elaborate on the problem either here or on our forum, I’ll be glad to see what we can do to make things work better. Are you saying that when you hit the “clear pins” button, the pins from your previous search are not cleared?

We don’t clear the pins from one search to another automatically so that people can place multiple search results on the map.

I guess we should have put “beta” on the site because we’re hoping to get comments like yours and improve the tool based upon feedback.

Thanks!

Posted at 10:38 am on Oct 24th, 2005 by Gary

Re: #7 and #8 posts…

Grey and Gary, Flash and Shockwave have a tendency to poll for video devices by default. There are settings you can change to disable this function but a lot of people don’t pay much attention to them because when they’re creating apps if it doesn’t have anything to do with a client’s video capabilities they’re not going to look at that part of their SDK. A user of the app can disable access to their video devices if they right click in a running flash app and select options.

Grey, you’re absolutely right about the posibilities for nefariousnous… If you’re not sure about what you’re using online you should always check to make sure you’re not broadcasting blind. I don’t think Gary’s AuctionMapper app is doing anything bad, though. It is pretty damn awesome if you ask me!

Posted at 10:55 am on Oct 24th, 2005 by The JimP

gary

when i clear the pins it works great but when i choose another catagory and locate another item it puts the pin back from when i had the first item that i located

example — i looked up a mini itx computer board it found one in austin texas i cleared the pins and did a search for 10″ lcd i found one i wanted by expanding the the thumbnail info window checked the item i wanted and clicked the (search for checked items) and it went back to the mini itx board in austin texas — it did that in multiple items

hope this helps ill copy this to your forums

dm

Posted at 10:57 am on Oct 24th, 2005 by digitalmaddog

the jimp,

Really appreciate you taking the time to clarify Flash/ShockWave polling the devices. Don’t want people worried that they’re being filmed while searching eBay!

Thanks also for the kind comment!

Posted at 11:37 am on Oct 24th, 2005 by Gary

dm,

Got your post to the auctionmapper forum and will communicate with you from there.

We’ll get this corrected as quickly as possible.

Thanks for posting the example for us to use!

Posted at 11:44 am on Oct 24th, 2005 by Gary

dm,

the pin problem you were having on auctionmapper was definitely a bug. something we had missed by not going down that exact search sequence recently.

anyway, I believe it’s fixed now.

thanks again for pointing it out!

Gary

Posted at 2:32 pm on Oct 24th, 2005 by Gary

just as an FYI, you CAN use your ipod as firewire host, not so sure about USB though. For example, if you had a 4G running linux, with a firewire connected to a non linux 1G (only because those have standard firewire input and you could use the regular ipod firewire cable) you could use

modprobe sbp2
mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/sda2 /mnt

to mount the 2G ipod to /mnt
yes, that mounts it read only, because you wouldnt want to corrupt any data, but if you really want to throw caution into the wind, simple remove the -o ro and you could write as well.

Anyways, maybe some leet homebrew PSP developer could whip up some code to do somethign similar with USB. If onyl I had a PSP….

Posted at 2:45 pm on Oct 24th, 2005 by n3ldan

There are so many slave USB devices, one could connect PSP or the iPod to. If it is really hardware limitation that both can not serve as hosts, then may be somebody should put togather a chip enhansed genderbender to make a host out of slave? Viable idea to spend a day on, isn’t it?

Posted at 3:22 pm on Oct 24th, 2005 by Egor Kobylkin

Actually, the PP5020 chip in 4G and above iPods is capable of acting as a USB host. ipodlinux can’t use it yet because (1) there’s not a lot of interest and (2) since the Apple firmware never acts in host mode, it’s going to be very hard to reverse engineer (i.e. no working example to disassemble!)

Also, last I checked, ipodlinux firewire host only worked on 3G iPods. The newer iPods use a different chip.

Posted at 6:50 pm on Oct 24th, 2005 by ljp

as I recall the psp can be a usb host it just needs the firmware to be hacked properly first. also thare was some sort of conector that acted as the host for 2 ipods on engadget quite awile back.

Posted at 9:22 pm on Oct 25th, 2005 by cokebottle tuque

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/ipod_photo_conn.html

If you check out the link…this guy managed to hook up his PSP to his iPod using the iPod photo connector. ‘It sees the PSP but not the photos. More experiments are needed.’

Does this change things?

Posted at 11:24 pm on Oct 25th, 2005 by Andrew