There has been alot of tinkering with the 3DS since launch, and although there have been leaps and bounds due to the combined efforts of many contributors, much of what we're doing would be expedited by extracting the boot code and other proprietary information (secrets) from the custom Nintendo SoC (System-On-a-Chip) of a retail 3DS.
UPDATE 12/01/2013
We are unable to contact user Jl12 for months now, if you can contact this user please let us know. His email address gspeer012 (at) gmail (dot) com. For now the fundraiser is suspended.