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VIP1710 – AirPrint Emulator

Posted on Friday, January 28th, 2011 at 11:21 in Electronics, Programming, VIP1710 by Martin

Before i depart to Bremen for two weeks i gonna try to use my insufficient Linux skills, bundled with insufficient embedded hacking skills in order to make my good ol’ pal “Vip1710″ be a networking printer box that runs my hack to make it usable with iOS devices. The problem here is that i have a Mipsel System here and no idea how to build that… but it should be possible, and if it is i have a printer server here which can not only share multiple printers in the network but also act as an AirPrint Server for the iDevices in our house… (But honestly, WHY do I do that? I dont like these devices anyway..)

Some nice Background information on the VIP1710:
http://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/pollin-motorola-vip1710   (THE Thread on hacking it)
http://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/MOTOROLA_VIP1710    (Some useful Information)
http://hilses.de/vip1710/   (Very detailed Information on hacking the VIP, thank you for this website!)

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