After seeing skeezix’s unboxing of the pandora devkit, i decided to make a parts list of all visible ICs on the board.

U1	8JA98/JWI92	- [Micron RAM Package] atop TI OMAP 3530 SoC
U2	TWL4030CI 	- TI Audio & Power Management Chip
U3
U4
U5
U6
U7
U8
U9
U10
U11
U12	TI 1773		- Low Voltage & Low Power Stereo Audio DAC with Lineout Amplifier - Thanks Moe
U13
U14
U15
U16
U17
U18	ATMega8L	- Atmel ATmega8L Micro Controller
U19	ALVC00		- Low Voltage 2 input NAND Gate
U20	ALVC00		- Low Voltage 2 input NAND Gate
U21	WE245		- TI 8-BIT DUAL-SUPPLY BUS TRANSCEIVER
U22	ATMega8L	- Atmel ATmega8L Micro Controller
U23

Can't see U#
1x WG7210 		- Wireless & BT Module including TI WL1251, WL1251FE and WL1251PM
1x WY245		- TI 32-BIT DUAL-SUPPLY BUS TRANSCEIVE

The ATmega8 sat near the SD cards interests me, it’d be nice to get a code dump of it to see what it’s up to.

If you have any more information, can read any chip markings i can’t, have a pandora devkit and fancy taking some more high res shots for us all, or datasheet links for the above, please leave a comment.

I’m not sure why it is, but even though i know exactly how it works, the contents of this video terrify me.

Hopefully i’ll be able to have a play with this stuff myself once i have some free time.

So, I’ve been playing around recently with trying to set up bluetooth on wrecs so i can connect a wiimote to it.

I finally got it working using libwiimote

parag0n@wrecs:$ ./test1 00:19:1D:83:A5:89
test1 - libwiimote test application

A    - Enable accelerometer
B    - Enable ir-sensor
1    - Enable rumble
+    - Increment leds
-    - Decrement leds
Home - Exit

Press buttons 1 and 2 on the wiimote now to connect.
MODE 34
BAT 70
KEYS 0000 one=0 two=0 a=0 b=0 <=0 >=0 ^=0 v=0 h=0 +=0 -=0
JOY1 joyx=128 joyy=127 x=125 y=107 z=173 keys.z=0 keys.c=0
JOY2 joyx=128 joyy=127
JOY3 joyx=125 joyy=107
AXIS x=000 y=000 z=000
TILT x=0.000 y=0.000 z=0.000
FORCE x=0.000 y=0.000 z=0.000 (sum=0.000)
IR1 x=0000 y=0000 ss=0
IR2 x=0000 y=0000 ss=0
IR3 x=0000 y=0000 ss=0
IR4 x=0000 y=0000 ss=0

Now i have this working, it’ll be a simple matter to create a remote control application for when i get the motor drivers working, and get full remote control!

This looks pretty cool, It could probably be used to build a wireless sensor bar with just a couple of IR LEDs, a 9v battery, and some resistors. Sorted!