libfuelband for Mac

[zackshapiro]

Hey Qdot,

This is awesome. I'd love to hack around on this with my Mac and Fuelband. Any plans on making this Mac-assessible? If I knew how to code better, I'd try to convert it. I'm learning now :)

[qdot]

Short answer: Yes at some point.

Long answer: So, depends on the language you want it in. I'm probably going to start moving a lot of my drivers for HID based devices over to hidapi (http://www.signal11.us/oss/hidapi/), which'll get the drivers to C at least. I might just ctypes into python for python libs. I'd rather not continue doing the libusb approach on OS X since it requires kext shunts that are flaky at best.

[qdot]

I'll go ahead and leave this as the tracking bug for libfuelband on mac, BTW. So just watch here for updates.

[zackshapiro]

Ideally I'd love to play with this in Ruby (since that's all I know right now). That's just me being selfish though ;)

[qdot]

https://github.com/ozone1015/ruby-hidapi - Get to portin'. :)

[C4]

Any interest in reviving this project?

[qdot]

Someone else is trying with (not fucking NEARLY enough) money: http://hacknikefuelband.com/index.html

The whole requirement of "give me an app store accessible API with it" is ridiculous, especially with the firmware work this is going to take.

[neiltron]

Simples!

[C4]

@qdot I saw this project when I was searching around for other people working on this. I agree the bounty thing is a bit silly but a good idea if it were to get people working on it. What did you have in mind from the firmware side of things? You mentioned possibly doing python with C extension modules.

[qdot]

Someone has already successfully dumped firmware via a facedancer, but that's not gonna help much since it's encrypted.

[C4]

Yeah the Facedancer is one of Travis Goodspeed's projects. Do you have a link to the dumped firmware? I didn't find this when I was looking around for info on the NFB. Obviously it's not going to help too much but could provide a few clues.

Do you have any interest in continuing work on this device? I looks like you play with quite a few devices.

[qdot]

Here's the page of the guy that was doing that (as my facedancer 11's are sitting on a shelf next to the components that need to go on them, as they have been for like 8 months, and now the 21 is out. :| ): http://zenpirate.com/posts/85

I'm way deep on some other projects right now, so I doubt I'll be touching this one for a while.