WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players

Posted by: mlord

WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 07/01/2005 15:37

I'm looking to purchase two or three extra RioCar/Empeg players. Drives not needed, perfect working order not necessarily required.

If you have one for sale, or one that you'd be willing to sell to me, then please email me ASAP: mlord at pobox dot com

Thanks!
Posted by: canuckInOR

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 07/01/2005 22:44

Out of curiosity... are you planning on needing a bunch of spares all of a sudden? That sounds dangerous.
Posted by: mlord

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 07/01/2005 23:00

I appreciate your sincere concern, but these would be for a more benign purpose.

I'm preparing a week-long course on embedded Linux programming, to be run a few times this year. We need an embedded platform for the programming exercises, and this just happens to be one of the more interesting ones under consideration. And hey.. if I can expand my empeg collection as a biz expense, well..
Posted by: canuckInOR

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 08/01/2005 00:00

Heh heh. I like your style of thinking. It sounds like an interesting course -- if you were local, I'd consider taking it.
Posted by: rob

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 08/01/2005 00:01

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I'm preparing a week-long course on embedded Linux programming, to be run a few times this year

Ooo.. are the courses for a particular client, or available to anyone? At what sort of level will they be pitched?

Rob
Posted by: mlord

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 08/01/2005 02:22

Quote:
Ooo.. are the courses for a particular client, or available to anyone? At what sort of level will they be pitched?

Rob


A bit too advanced for someone of your background, I suspect. Especially the lab portions..
Posted by: mlord

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 08/01/2005 02:24

Quote:
if you were local, I'd consider taking it.


If you're still in LA, I actually am "local" there 2-3 times a year! But maybe not for much longer, 'least if I don't pay more attention to my clients there! Or, rather, in Irvine.

Cheers
Posted by: rob

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 08/01/2005 13:30

Quote:
A bit too advanced for someone of your background, I suspect. Especially the lab portions..

It goes without saying that my entire engineering background was sucked out of me the day someone added "Manager" to my job title. Early warning systems have been installed to mobilise the population of Cambridge in the event that I should even approach a soldering iron.

Nonetheless, I remain interested on behalf of some of my staff-to-be!

Rob
Posted by: mlord

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 08/01/2005 13:52

Quote:
my entire engineering background was sucked out of me the day someone added "Manager" to my job title.


Heh heh.. I know that menace well. When they tried that out on me, I started hacking OS/2 and then Linux in all of my "free" hours to compensate. Eventually this enabled me to cut free from the M-word shackles, and get back to real life on my own!

This course is being developed for delivery to a specific client, twice in the next six weeks or so, but I anticipate having it made available to others after the initial runs.

Currently the content and pace are geared to match the needs of the lead customer (always a good strategy to bootstrap a new product). At the end of the week, it should leave them at a point where they could intelligently discuss embedded Linux systems with anyone from the Cambridge team.

Whether they could "make that team" or not afterward, would depend much more heavily on their individual capabilities than on anything I can show them during the week. I'm hoping they aren't quite that far along yet, so that they'll be happier with the content of the course (the hope of instructors everywhere?).

Cheers!
Posted by: rob

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 08/01/2005 22:52

Do you think you could have your students right a bit of an open source player during each course, so eventually we have a complete application?

Rob
Posted by: mlord

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 09/01/2005 02:25

Heh he.. Actually, I was going to have them write a micro-FTP server, that supports PASsiVe mode, to replace the one in Hijack!

Cheers
Posted by: pgrzelak

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 09/01/2005 11:05

Just make sure you keep a very careful watch on your players that your students do not, uh, "acquire" one for themselves... After seeing what they can do, you may have a theft problem on your hands...
Posted by: SonicSnoop

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 09/01/2005 12:26

You should record the class and post it on the FAQ page so us programming newbies can take it
Posted by: stahimooney

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 10/01/2005 12:14

I have one that boots, appears to run, you can debug it, copy files to and from, but does not have audio out... the DSP has been replaced by Stuart at Eutronix with no luck.

Would that one fit your purposes?
Posted by: mlord

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 10/01/2005 13:25

Sounds perfect. Email me a price, please!
Posted by: siberia37

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 11/01/2005 03:33

Quote:
I appreciate your sincere concern, but these would be for a more benign purpose.

I'm preparing a week-long course on embedded Linux programming, to be run a few times this year. We need an embedded platform for the programming exercises, and this just happens to be one of the more interesting ones under consideration. And hey.. if I can expand my empeg collection as a biz expense, well..


If you need another embedded linux platform for your course- then you might consider a Hauppage MediaMVP.. I have one very cheap in this very forum.
Posted by: canuckInOR

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 12/01/2005 19:27

I am still here. If you ever have spare time while you're down here, feel free to look me up.
Posted by: Mataglap

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 14/01/2005 01:00

I'm in SoCal as well, San Diego to be exact, but get to LA often. Is it time to try and pull together a empeg meet?

--Nathan
Posted by: canuckInOR

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 25/01/2005 00:50

We certainly could. Unfortunately, I won't have time to do (or help with) the organizing for the next few months, at least. At any rate, we shouldn't hijack Mark's thread for this...
Posted by: mlord

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 25/01/2005 23:13

Oh, don't worry about my thread here now! No longer want the players -- couldn't get enough of them in time.

Cheers
Posted by: canuckInOR

Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players - 26/01/2005 04:43

Too bad. What did you end up using, instead?