[E3-hacking] Just got an e3 - where do I start

[Edward Robbins]

Thanks, that helped.

I just got it to output serial... and it's PBL 5.1.

I guess that means it's basically a brick then? Any plausible way around?

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Antony Stone <
Antony.Stone at e3.open.source.it> wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 June 2012 at 00:17, Edward Robbins wrote:
>
> > Sorry for 3rd email...
> >
> > Using a 9V supply the emailer appears to start - email and voice lights
> > flash, then after some time the power light comes on when I press power,
> > and camera light comes on when I then press video, but the LCD does not
> > come on. So I suspect that amstrad were being cheap in choosing such a
> high
> > voltage PSU - because they didn't want to include a backlight inverter to
> > boost the voltage for the LCD backlight. I thus further suspect that I
> can
> > still talk to the serial port without the full voltage input... so if I
> > build a cable, is there a way I can tell which PBL I have from the serial
> > output?
>
> See the first line of http://www.earth.li/%7Enoodles/files/delta.boot(linked
> from http://www.earth.li/~noodles/hardware-e3.html).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
> Antony.
>
> --
> All generalisations are inaccurate.
> --
> I'm not impossible, just highly implausible.
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