Brother (possibly also some Bernina) embroidery machine memory cards

[bezmi]

Hi Guys, first post on the forums. I stumbled upon here when doing my own research on this and decided to base my work off Aero's. Here is a link to my github repo: https://github.com/bezmi/brother_embroidery_card_experiments. At the moment, I am using a utility written by another github user to emulate a vikant card and write to it using the old free software that vikant provides.

I have also been digging through the image dumps a fair bit and you can see my notes on reverse engineering the file format here: https://github.com/bezmi/brother_embroidery_card_experiments/blob/main/notes.org. I am waiting on a replacement ribbon cable after I broke one in the machine, but once that arrives I will put these notes to the test in trying to write a utility to write to the device without needing to use PED basic or the Vikant software.

[MarkMLl]

Hi Guys, first post on the forums. I stumbled upon here when doing my own research on this and decided to base my work off Aero's.

Welcome to the forum and discussion :-)

I've got very limited time to put into this at the moment ("real life" issues) but I'm still hoping at some point to get a logic analyser and disassembler hooked up to monitor the transfers... which will almost certainly echo the excellent work done by others (but I did have a lot of fun writing support code for my old HP kit :-)

By way of xref, https://github.com/MarkMLl/pesdump might interest: it's fairly good at parsing files but rather less good at patching them.

MarkMLl