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Bluetooth Headset and Linux

Published 2005-06-05 by Administrator

The Alsa-Bluetooth project project provides a way to use a bluetooth headset with Linux.They do this currently by making an alsa kernel driver which uses bluez to reach the headset.

I Wrote a KDE based user space daemon wich works as drop in replacement for the btsco daemon from the Alsa-Bluetooth package. The Programm is in early beta stage. Just start it from the Console and you will have a small kicker applet in your Systray. KBtsco has a function to discover the BAddr of your Headset. Once you did the pairing via e.g. KBluetoothd package, you can click the headset icon in the Systray to connect to the headset. All actions get visualized via On-Screen-Display in the right corner of your monitor. After connecting you can push your connect button on the headset wich actually opens the sco socket. I used this tool on daily basis with Skype. Sometimes snd_bt_sco seems to crash and eats all CPU time,it’s still beta i think.

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Oldskool Gba Intro

Published 2005-05-15 by Administrator

Did a small intro for the GBA. I’m using Mushroom lib for low level hardware access. Further more iam using Krawall sound engine. It’s looks like a old amiga intro, having a sine scroller and some wobbel logo stuff in the background. Have a look…..

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Flash2Advance Parport Client

Published 2005-05-15 by Administrator

When i started developing for the GBA i bought a Flash2Advance because the MBV2 limited me too much.
I took the Parport version, because i thought it’s more likely to find a Parport driver or client tool for Linux than a usb based. But the only Linux based tool i could find was the Usb client called f2a. So i decided to write my own client or user space driver. I took the Usb sources and added Parport support. I used Wine to reverse engineer the protocol. I took me 2 weekends to analyse the Wine io debug dumps and find all patterns. I even had to write some Python scripts to get worked through the whole io debug logfiles. But finally i had a working parport driver. Later i ported the Parport io code from outb/inp calls to Kernel parport dev interface. The whole tool was later integrated into the Ucon64 suite.

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Loundness filter for BlueMp3

Published 2005-05-12 by Administrator

I wrote an extension to the BlueMp3 firmware. Now you can use an loudness filter on the mp3-player. After reading the VS1001 specs, the BlueMp3 mp3-decoder, i noticed that it’s possbile to upload code to the dsp.This code can manipulate the current mp3 stream, so perfect for a loundness filter. I worked through the VS1001 application note and wrote some routines to upload that VS1001 code to the chip. Then i integrated that routines into the BlueMp3 firmware. There is patch available for the 1.8 firmware but also the binary 2.5 firmware includes the loundness filter code.

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K2send – Gui for BlueMp3

Published 2005-05-12 by Administrator

After reading the CT article about the BlueMp3 player, i knew i need this piece of hardware. It’s an bluetooth mp3 player based on the Atmel Mega128 cpu. The firmware source is available and the client is linux based. So what do i need more to play around? I ordered the pcb and parts at Segor. The Bluetooth module and the Atmega was pre-solderd, because it’s not easy to solder TQFP’s at home. The thing was build after a hour of soldering and worked perfect. But the bluetooth signal just worked over 5 meters. So i added an Lambda/4 antenna (thanks tobi) to the bluetooth module, which extented the coverage up to 20 meters. But what i really needed was a GUI to play my mp3s. Since iam KDE user i deciced to programm my own Gui called k2send. I setup a project page a berlios for it.