Digital Photo Keychains for Linux

[Eli Marmor]

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 <ori at helicontech.co.il>:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at 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

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