IM-ME Linux Drivers Beta Release and Sourceforge Page
To follow up on my earlier articles, the IM-ME has been gaining some traction in the hacking community. There's been a couple of driver releases in various forms, as well as a lot of information and protocol specs. Scott Albertine sent me a great gpl implementation in C, so we've made a sourceforge page for everyone to download the driver.
The SF page is at http://im-megpldrivers.sourceforge.net . There's the initial C driver, some protocol information from Scott, as well as a SVN repository to push any code changes to. If any of the other IM-ME driver implementations also want to host their drivers/source code there, it would make for a good launch pad for IM-ME hackers. Let me know if you need file or SVN access and I can help set it up. Hope to see you there, happy hacking! 
February 2nd, 2010 - 01:17
I dont like to mess around with sourceforge to much but i will post a link to what i have so far on my python library (not very library like at the moment).. currently the code is a bit of a mess and sending messages is horrible and just as painful as doing it without any sort of library but i hope to change that this weekend.
http://m0nk.hopto.org/imme_lib.py
February 2nd, 2010 - 06:17
this is awesome. Picked one of these up a few weeks ago to see what i could do witth it. Havent got round to it yet but im happy to see some progress allready
February 4th, 2010 - 08:23
Fantastic. I will try it ASAP, and see if I can use it in a little project I have in mind.
February 5th, 2010 - 06:57
I had installed the driver in a clean Windows 2008R2 instalation and it works, but it fails in the OS in production… Anyone had the same problem?
February 6th, 2010 - 00:09
well on the topic of hacking cheap things theirs something called a crammer its made by leapfrog and its a small little portable mp3 player that can basically play mp3s, play game, and do quizzes and flash cards you can buy it at big lots for $10 and it has a usb port on the bottom of it which you use to plug it into the computer and download other quizzes and put mp3s on it through the leapfrog connect program when it tried to get it to recognize as a regular storage device in windows 7 it didn’t come up when i used diskpart and typed list disk it came up as it being 0mb when it tried to use it on ubuntu at first it said no media inserted but when i used the trick where you turn it on pull out a battery and hold enter and down and put the battery back in to get to the update required screen ubuntu said that it couldn’t mount it
specs ” Processor ARM7 @ 81 MHz Display 2.5” FSTN 160×120 8-level grayscale Adjustable brightness Audio Jack for earbuds or external speaker Music Playback codec is Ogg-Vorbis, 44.1 kHz, 64 kbps Other audio is encoded in ADPCM Memory 1 GB NAND Flash 8 MB SDRAM ”
it would be cool if someone could hack it so that you could put some more games on it because right now im thinking of just using it as a little mp3 player
February 6th, 2010 - 08:42
Hey zonemad96 ,
So I went to big lots and picked up a crammer. Pretty interesting little device. Takes 3x aaa batteries and plays ogg vorbis which is very cool. Poking around the insides now
Thanks for the heads up!
February 24th, 2010 - 05:31
I also use IRC, and have been using Xchat for that for quite some time now. I tried IRC in Pidgin. It has OK IRC support, but not great. It can automatically identify to nickserv, but it is under-documented and doesn’t support multiple IRC servers for a given network.