RockIR (Infrared/DAP module)

Purpose

• Universal host DAP compatibility
• Setting standards for interoperability between players
• Enhancing the market playing field for digital audio
• Promoting the community driven design of F/OSS to make a tangible product for the masses
• Fun!!

Ok, what is it??

RockIR will be a seamless way to connect older and present digital audio devices to a gateway of freedom; transmitting data wirelessly through short range communication as to not be interfering in a world of many devices, flipping through channels on your television via a handy all-around infrared remote, and after charging, ready to become an independent player altogether.

Who to contact

Software Design

Patches to Rockbox (Plugins)

• UniversalRemoteControl plugin
• IrDA plugin
• No drivers required. Touching the core code is not needed!

Software Side on RockIR

• Porting Rockbox to the chosen architecture of the FieldProgrammableGateArray
• Rockbox drivers (only pertinent to the FieldProgrammableGateArray target) for IrDA modulator, demodulator, microSD controller, and DAC, which all are completely documented through open source code
• IrDA stack

Hardware Design

• gEDA : http://www.geda.seul.org/
• Icarus Verilog : http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/
• BRL-CAD : http://www.brlcad.org/
• I am currently working with these free tools to design the circuitry/logic/CAD drawings... -- JoelSnyder