Jun 2009 29

The Sub

This is my sub. It's a 12" 50W jobby from Jaycar, in a 100L sealed enclosure. Currently grossly underpowered, but still able to hit the resonant frequency of the living room :p And of course I built the entire enclosure from scratch :-)
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Jun 2009 29

Sun Ultra 1

One relatively unknown benefit of studying electrical & computer engineering at the University of Canterbury are the free computers often left outside computer labs, free for the taking. No this isn't theft! They are placed there by technical staff, complete with large signs saying "FREE". So last night I almost tripped over on my way into the 24 hour computer lab. I was almost going to pass it by, but then I noticed the attractive sawtooth pattern on the side of the side and thought "that looks like a SUN!" Turns out it was a Sun Ultra Creator 1, a variant of the Sun Ultra 1 workstation. So soon after I was cycling home with a 12 kilo [1, pp 5-2] workstation strapped on the back of my bike, going clunk every time I went over a bump. The extra 12 kg over the back wheel is excellent resistance training by the way. Specs Processor: UltraSPARC 167MHz Memory: 256 MB Ethernet: Built in 10baseT UPA Slot 1e,0: SUNW, ffb Sbus 0,0: QLGC,isp sd st (some kind of QL...
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            [text] => The Sony Ericsson K750i is my current, and is an great phone for hacking and modding. Here are some of the things I've found out about it.


Watching Videos

It plays 3GP and MP4 videos just fine. To convert video into a format suitable for it, I use #GP Converter, which uses FFMPEG and the QuickTime API to generate a 3GP file from almost any input. I had trouble getting the settings right, however the following in a file called Transcoding_k750i.ini in the default_setting folder works a treat:
[Info]
TitleE=General: 3GPP, k750i
DescriptionE=It is a setting that turns to a general, recent cellular phone.

[Item0]
TitleE=Portait Mode (Normal)
Command0=""<%AppPath%>coresffmpeg" -y -i "<%InputFile%>" -timestamp "<%TimeStamp%>" -bitexact -vcodec mpeg4 -fixaspect -s 176x144 -r 14.985

-b 104 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 16000 -ab 32 -f 3gp -muxvb 64 -muxab 32 "<%TemporaryFile%>.3gp""
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Command2="rm "<%TemporaryFile%>.3gp""

[Item1]
TitleE=Horizontal Full Screen
Command0=""<%AppPath%>coresffmpeg" -y -i "<%InputFile%>" -timestamp "<%TimeStamp%>" -bitexact -vcodec mpeg4 -fixaspect -s 220x180 -r 14.985

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Command2="rm "<%TemporaryFile%>.3gp""

... which produces very small (~1 MB per minute) videos suitable for viewing on the phone.

Firmware

Misc

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