Digital Photo Keychains for Linux

[Noam Rathaus]

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 <marmor at 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 <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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