I'm considering dropping their marketing team an email. You'll need a copy of IDA Pro (or maybe notepad - see below). I need people to help with the disassembly.Be warned there is a small chance of bricking the camera. This would rapidly increase the amount of functions I can find! Someone to tell me the offsets to icons/text images in the binary.Datasheet for the MB91696AM or even a very similar ARM based CPU.This would be really useful in understanding how all the debug functionality actually works Service manual for a K30 (or even a similar model).Paper describing the work so far - very technical Written custom firmware that allows custom code to be run.Large parts found including memory allocation functions, displaying text on screen etc Performed a lot of reverse engineering.This means no horrible FP instruction set! It all ARM and that's what I'm good at. The great thing about this is that it's based around a Dual core ARM Cortex M4 CPU. This I think is a Fujitsu Milbeaut MB91696AM. I've done a lot of work reverse engineering the chip that's inside the K30 and I believe newer models as well. I have this and the tool that changes assembly into a higher level language - the decompiler. Next with tooling, for the people who don't know you need an expensive dissasembler called IDA Pro. I'm a hardware hacker who previously ported CHDK to my Canon Powershot - I've got some experience in hacking firmware on cameras. Luckily I can help with some of the above. Cost of the required tools such as IDA Pro.Based on this I've seen that the biggest problems for creating a hacked firmware are: I've gone through all the previous posts on Pentax hacking as well as the useful but old Pentax hacking site. However I need help and can't do it alone. I'm also a full time reverse engineer and I'm very interested in rebooting firmware hacking on the Pentax.

I own a K30 with a load of old manual lenses. I better start with an introduction as this is my first post.

Camera firmware hack