Gareth Magennis wrote in message
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"N_Cook" wrote in message
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Rich Webb wrote in message
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:15:54 +0100, "N_Cook" wrote:
Rereading that minidisc.org page the JE510 is a machine that you
cannot
go
down that route.
Went down the lo-tech route. Dismantled a small part of the deck to
get
to
the eject/inject micro microswitch. Glued a bit of thread to the
little
flipper and tied to a rubber band to hook over a suitable component.
Load as normal the donor MD full of silence, pull the thread, manually
rotate the eject gear to eject that MD, rotate the other way to
take-in
the
target disc. Go into Edit/name to force a TOC change and eject.
Recovered full recording without gaps, in stereo , and as a bonus
undeleted
a bit of previous recording on the end
Heh. Good hack!
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Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
With all the royalist crap going on in England at the moment I may get
time
next week to return to my other hack.
Much more universal IR remote control. I've now got a 64 bit (8 x DIL
sw)
parallel to serial converter and 2 oscillators to take a pair of IR
codes,
in sequence, that fortuitously unlock one feature of a unit with no
available IR r/c. Load those codes , from DSO monitoring, into my
converter
to feed IR to the unit to be hacked, to zero in on the core model code
and
expand out for the other function codes, then load into a learning
remote.
I must get some more of these excellent learners
http://www.amazon.co.uk/7dayshop-Uni...nction/dp/B004
3VTRAQ
great value as no LCD to bump up the cost, I see they are now 5.99 ,not
4.99
as of last month
The search modes are usefully different, can designate manufacturer's
codes
instead of the usual option of the whole lot.
Sorry for Off Topic post, but my dear old Mum's TV remote does not have a
dedicated Subtitle button for turning the Hard of Hearing Subtitles on and
off, which she likes to do.
Doing this via the menus is a total pain, as they are really badly written
and this command is way way down the list.
Are these learning remotes able to emulate such a button that does not
appear on the original remote? I'm hoping the Subtitle button will be
kind
of generic?
Cheers,
Gareths Mum.
Perhaps with macro option - possible on that learner remote mentioned above
, but again not mentioned in their sales blurb
With my hack kit , should be possible , if there is a single code buried in
the TV decoder
Parallel to serial converter
Requirements 8 x 4021 , 8x 8way DIL sw, 2x 4011 for simple adjustable
monostable and
for gated adjustable 30 to 50 KHz oscillator, using a reasonably stable
square audio oscillator
as clock source, fed through on the inverted waveform, through the daisy
chained
shift registers. Push sw to go from parallel load to series shift.
The DIL sws for setting up the parallel data (one bit is a 1 and 0 , 3 is
101010 etc but the zeros bave to be reintroduced at the output m/s)
eg 11222322412313211 up to 64 bits and the m/s arranged
to set the bit lenght and output say 3 "1"s for continuous 3 x1 duration
output.
That gating the 40KHz oscillator to drive visible and IR LED
Working exerciser but not had time to delve into this project further at the
moment
But you need a DSO to read the bit stream of one of the functions to get the
model coding
as distinct from function coding, then manually sequenct through the switch
settings to hit upon the
subtitle code
this is a useflu background to IR coding structures
http://read.pudn.com/downloads157/so.../IR%20Formats%
202.PDF