Nice, we’ve been doing the same for Blackfin PMPs. I do know another guy who got his own code running on this same ARM PMP a while ago, but he lost interest after he worked out how the hardware worked so it’s good to see somebody else doing it :P.

Posted at 7:56 am on Jul 18th, 2008 by Orkie

Is this a cheap AVR platform or a ARM platform. Just trying to clarify. I think it should be ARM.

Posted at 8:56 am on Jul 18th, 2008 by James

Now this is what I’d like to see more of, the documentation of undocumented hardware.. and then, writing software for said hardware.

Would any of you kind people know more projects like this? where the progress is logged/blogged/documented? :)

*geek-out orgasm commencing*

Posted at 9:40 am on Jul 18th, 2008 by Geek505

Yhea, reverse engineering projects for these kinds of things are awesome. The best of these projects are usually mp3 players and routers, check out Rockbox for example. There’s also the gameboy series which are fully documented by hackers. There’s plenty out there, these are just a few examples.

Posted at 10:47 am on Jul 18th, 2008 by dandin1

Brilliant! The buggy firmware is really the only thing that keeps these devices from being AMAZING. I have a JXD Meizu-clone that has unbeatable hardware (video capture, for one), but the OS is a bit lacking in more than a few places.

Posted at 8:07 pm on Jul 18th, 2008 by Jake H

@Geek505: check out http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl – lots of projects documented/started there. A bit dead at the moment, but when something new and interesting to potentially run Linux on or, as is more common lately, some embedded device running Linux already to be opened up for other uses, comes along, they’ll light back up.

Check out the Mattel Juicebox forum at the bottom for a similar hacking effort to the one posted. Definately read the post with 128 replies on page 3, as this was the master thread for figuring things out, prior to it being rolled off into a dedicated forum for the device.

Posted at 5:40 pm on Jul 19th, 2008 by tom61