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The proof of concept would use a harvested connector from the cheapest walkman wired remote I can get my hands on. Since I dont plan to do a production run of these, I will most likely resin cast the prototype and any limited production that I do. The basic design is boringly simple, a COTS bluetooth module with AVRCP support, a microcontroller, battery and battery managment circuit, and a digital potentiometer to emulate a remote. This allows interaction with any system that has a "dumb" remote with a mere connector change and settings update. Right now I am still in the design phase, but as there are no hi-frequency or high power design involved I should be able to get a proof of concept (working,butt ugly) version in a few weeks.

Heh, well it finaly happened, good, although I wish they offered it at a lower price. Although I now find I will be duplicating an existing product, I still plan on making a bluetooth adapter with the remote functions for use with bluetooth headphones. I have a thread going for sugestions at Topic 15735

I've been hunting for a bluetooth adapter that I could hack to enable remote control of my sony HI-MD player. After sevral months of searching and not finding anything I have decided to create one and was wondering if anyone else was interested. I plan on making a limited run using mostly COTS parts and having it set up so that minimal re-design would allow for various remote interfaces (Sony 4pin, Sony flat, panasonic 4pin+co-ax, etc..). If I see some interest I will post my progress and make the product available to the community. If any of you have any product sugestions, comments, or questions please post here.

i guess it is a quirk of the obsd msdos mounting then.. it does create the sd0 device. but the msdos mount command fails, and dd seems to make four copies of each sector on read. Could you be so kind as to post the output of disklabel?

um, i dont want to transfer tracks, just files. I am looking for a way to mount the fat16 partition presented on the minidisc

Ok, so I love the format, and store all sorts of data on mine as well as the music. Unfortunatly my OS of choice as a network admin is OpenBSD which doesnt seem to play happily with the way Hi-MD represents itself as a umass device. Have any of you managed to figure out the drive geometry that might make the hi-md work? It would realy rock to have hi-md working on all the umass aware OSs that I know. Also on the drive geometry issue, have any of you tried to use a non Sony cardreader->usbdrive copier? This would also be quite nice, being able to dump photos to MD where (since I carry them with me in the feild) I wouldnt have to worry about anything damaging them. Once again a plus for the only format that is cheap, rugged and heat resistant. Thanks in advance for your time, Robert Szasz

Yhea, dat is nice, having a portable dat recorder is great. But if all you want to do is pull from dat, an audio capible drive is best. Even if you want to trade in dat, the 2x transfer beats the pants of a 1x optical. So, if you can afford a portable dat, go for it, they are great. But if you are using a MD deck, you probably arent all that interested in the cost. I now have an utter butload of these things coming in, I'm sure i can get a few (I'm flashing them myself) set aside if you are interested. They will be tested, in the $20-$30 range including shipping. Bounce me a PM if you are interested in one.

i have a friend with a bunch of these drives that I've been flashing for him. If you can wait a day or so, I can probably get you a drive for his cost + shipping. If you want to go get a drive from ebay, you should get a CTD-8000 drive as they are the easiest to flash and get running

digital amp usualy refers to a delta sigma converter (aka 1 bit amplifier). A digital amp allows for fewer passive components, and filtering in the digital domain instead of the analog (less ringing, better alias protection).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...3&category=3710 PCMCIA would be prefered, this is the cheapest i could find. USB -> SCSI are out there but i dont know how stable they are.

Yes, you can transfer the recordings directly to WAV format. No spdif, no aes/bui. just a direct data transfer over scsi.

I'm currently working on a similar project. If you have a PC, get a SCSI card, a CTD-8000 tape drive, Dat2Wav and your dats. You can dump from dat at 2x and it automaticaly tracks out using the track marks on the tape. You can find those drives on ebay for $15-$30.