Monthly Archives: December 2007

Cooooool!! Some guys have a video of it here. In summary: Boot Wii in Gamecube mode (which only allows access to certain areas of memory/ GC compatable hardware). However, you can still run custom GC code. Mess with the physical address select lines on the memory chips so that you can manually select out ofContinue reading “Wii console finally hacked!”

… is coming along nicely! I’ve disassembled about 75% of the driver now, and can talk to XD cards and receive the expected responses. The hardware interface is slightly more complex than the simple bitbanging interface I expected, and there are still a few mysterious fields of registers I must work out. I could writeContinue reading “Linux Ricoh XD support”

As I currently can’t sleep AGAIN due to reading too many interesting things AGAIN and then thinking too much, here is ANOTHER interesting thing. Soon no one will sleep! 🙂 A friend sent me this page about machining with high pressure (20000-60000 psi!) water jets: There are some great pictures of the stuff you canContinue reading “Abrasive waterjet machining”

Oh dear, oh dear, looks like I’m finally back to reverse engineering things again. The media reader in my new laptop supports MMC/SD/MemoryStick/XD cards. However under linux, only SD cards are supported as the manufacturer (Ricoh) won’t release the docs. I won’t be having this. The SD support is possible because the card uses theContinue reading “Ricoh media reader under linux”