I've been rather busy lately, and haven't really had time to work on any projects... at least not any that I am willing to talk about. So since its been a while since I last made a post, I thought I would details some of the small mods I have made to my RS Media that I haven't previously mentioned.

It looks like its been nearly 6 months since I last did an update. Interestingly enough, several things have happened in that time. The site has been transition to a new version, and might get a layout change in the near future.

So first up, WowWee's 2008 range has been announced. There are a lot more offerings this year than the last few years. Of particular interest are Rovio and the RoboRemote. Both of these should be interesting to play with when released.

Work on my new bootloader is going well, I have to functions to talk to the Flash EEPROM working properly, booting from USB seems to be working 100% now, and I can now read and boot from the NAND memory. An example is show below.

Hardware SetupNot everything was going well today. The hard drive in the my linux box is failing, I'm guessing the bearing have worn out, causing it to overheat and fail. I had a frantic few hours last night backing up all my data. Its not just the code for the bootloader I'm currently working on, its all the code I have written for the RS Media. Some of which serves as documentation for the things I have discovered about the RS Media.

Today, I finally got the my bootloader to read the Silicon ID details from the Flash EEPROM.

Nocturnal's RS Media BootLoader - Ver 0.2 (12/09/2007)
Flash EEPROM : Manufacturer ID = 00C2 Device ID = 22BA
MC9328MXL Silicon ID = 00000003