[AMC-List] AM radio computer MP3 player...

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

It's only taken me A WHOLE YEAR, but it's pretty much working now,
though not installed.

I have a linux car computer in the trunk, USB to the dashboard, and a
hacked up 1970 AMC Hornet AM radio as the music controller, with very
carefully crafted interface software. It does the whole enchilada (8000+
songs in some 700 disks, so far) from just the two AM radio shafts. No
dashboard hacks at all.

Here's the controller in my hand, minus the plastic bezel (out in the
lab). I will demo the thing for Dorkbot next weekend, hopefully install
it two weeks from now.

http://wps.com/projects/MP3-system/radio-player.html

The rest of that page http://wps.com/projects/MP3-system is pretty
nerdly (internal documentation) but I'll clean it up and put photos and
such when closer to done.

The computer is totally hidden, does all its power management
automatically and silently (eg. knows enough to not turn itself off for
a couple of hours if it's 10am; but turns itself off in 30 minutes if
it's 2am, etc). 

It's supposed to have a wifi interface for loading music, but the USB
wifi thing I use has a buggy software driver, so I have to plug in an
ethernet cable. (I rip CDs to a Mac mini at home, then copy it into the
car).

Now I gotta go work on the stupid carburetor.

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