Vogue-Tec News # 1

Review of innovations, interesting and general events around the player from Vogue magazine

Content

• miniOS
• SD / MMC
• Amplifier strapping
• Housing
• And others?

miniOS

As I promised, the next review of innovations will be when miniOS turns out to be successfully launched and finalized. With the tremendous efforts of our team, help from the Chinese, hours of tests and more than 500 messages, we are pleased to present to the owners of Vogue player a full firmware, exactly the kind that is put on regular players. At the moment, the firmware can play mp3 files, play videos, and some files that are buggy on standard firmware are now playing successfully. For example, the standard 175MB rip of the new series of the favorite series will no longer be buggy. Checked for Family Guy :) Also, the translation of the firmware menu was improved, unnecessary functions were removed, management was fixed, now you can even play the built-in Tetris! tronix286 meanwhile, managed to even write a couple of native demos for minios, and embed them in return for not working FM radio.
Video demonstration:


Instead of the TV module, the Flash playback module was turned on, it has no control, so it will not be possible to play the games. There is a problem with the E-book module - it is made very casually by the Chinese, and initially did not even know about the line breaks, if there are volunteers - it needs to be rewritten, there are a lot of problems with it, and it is impossible to use it normally.
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Now about installing on the device

1. Download the file minios-1.0.35-tronix.rar
2. Unpack it somewhere
3. Read the “Firmware” section.
4. Report all the bugs in http://groups.google.com/group/vogeeky

A complete list of miniOS and ChangeLog improvements can be found in the README.txt.

SD / MMC

In addition to the software part, the iron part was not deprived of attention, the SD / MMC controller was started and the harness was selected for it.
Binding:

How it should look like:

The process was described in detail in the topic “Screwing an SD card” in the Google group and on the Google website .

Amplifier strapping

Comrade Lark researched the original datasheets for PMP players, our board and other sources, and unzipped another amplifier to the board, for one making the circuit:

More information can be found in the discussion, or on the page description strapping.

Housing

After the hardware, it was decided to look at the appearance of the device - the user Alex Vasilev put together a mockup in Google Sketchup, here’s his render.

After a time, the layout was partially implemented in life.

It remains to make the edging and other small elements and the player is ready!

And others?

Now a question for habrayusers: have you seen any ads from AmeriChip? Judging by the internal structure and typicality of all advertising - it is based on this board. If you have a publication with their ads, or any other printed product from AmeriChip - could you do a photo shoot for the board, or even try to install our firmware? At the moment, it is known that the AmeriChip ad was ordered by Mazda, Citroen, handed over to graduate Skolkovo specialists, other examples can be seen on their website in the gallery. Perhaps with your help, it will be possible to get another source of media players for $ 5.

References:

http://vogeeky.co.cc/
http://www.americhip.com/
http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/DIY/110645/ - the first part of Vogue-Tec