Re: Why don't we try to write our own firmware??
Chipods have very limited resources, they have an in-built 8051 8 bits processor whereas iPods have a 32 bits ARM processors. However we must exploit the advantages of that processor (everything is inside like mp3 and mp4 decoder etc). What we want to do is to improve the performance of such devices, no one expects to develop something better than iPods (no with those limited hardware resources). Among other things, been us the owners of the code we may assist each other when problems arise and don't sit waiting that some chinese guy do the job. By the way we don't need to hire a chinese programmer for doing the things we want (we can see what they already do =( )
I haven't founded yet a C compiler for the 8051, however I'm still working in the software framework. I'm programming a backend for the GUI (the message handler) so if someone is writing a GUI we can talk =)
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