On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 sherlock@vsnl.com wro= te :
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 17:02, Raseel Bhagat wrote:
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Please dont cc me. I am already on the li= st.
My mistake. I'll pay attention from this time
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That is the least of your problems. Identif= ying the peripherals
within is the worst pain. Actually most of the nokias = have an arm processor 8MB ram, 2Mb flash rom and peripheral (RF frontend, L= CD, keyboard, codec, modem and smartcard) interfaces whose regs and address= es are proprietory. They also have a few pins below the battery that allows= an fbus/mbus connection which is used for reflashing. You can read the fla= sh download it into an arm disassmbler and figure out the io addresses of t= he peripherals and the code used to drive them. The peripherals are actuall= y not very complex (except the modem). Once this is done u can port linux t= o the phone. However it would take a lot of time and effort to do the first= part.
Hmm... So what you are trying to say tha= t this project is extremely difficult....but noe..impossible, Right?
Look, I for one, am unemplpoyed , sitting at= home and
studying(read:dreaming) about being an Embedded L= inux
Engineer. So,
if you wanna go ahead with any such proj= ects, Im game. Just
that ,
I need a li'l bit of mentoring t= o do. Tell the time and place
to
start and we'll hit it off= .
Ok Ok
Hehehe.... Got a li'l car= ried away there.
Ok so what robot do we want? extermin= ator which will track
someone and shoot? or house help like vaccum the floo= r. Or stationary gsm controlled chappati making robot (god my wife & mo= m will love this). Dial a chappati. Man we could setup one at VT / Thane / = Borivali / Churchgate with a nice finger print reader. sms from the train q= ty of chappati. Go to RoboChap stick finger in out rolls al foil wrapped pe= rfectly cooked chappatis. And we can patent this and we can rule the chappa= ti world and we can be filthy rich and we need not eat chappati from our ro= bots any more and ....
Seriously tho the chappati maki= ng robot will work perfectly with
an 8 bit micro and proper mechanics no os= inside. So that would be boring.
hehehehehe.... i would l= ove being called "The Chappati Demi-Gods"
or something to = that effect.
But on a more serious note, i have a sugge= stion. First we should decide whether we are gonna work on the Robot Projec= t or the mobile phone OS project. Unless........of course, you wanna do bot h......hmmm.....that would be really something eh?
Anywyas, de= cide and tell me....
Raseel.
Raseel Bhag= at
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