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

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 20:20 -0500, Ray Mick wrote:
> Man thats what I have been wanting to do to my radio. You see the ads  
> in Hemmings for vendors that will do this on your radio but want up  
> to  $500 to do the mod with all the components inside the original  
> case  .

Umm, $500 would be cheap! And not bad, since a fairly ordinary DIN
stereo unit is $250. There are commercial DIN-format
mp3-computer-players, but I think they are more like $1000 and up, last
I checked. 

tomj


> On Jun 23, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Tom Jennings wrote:
> 
> > 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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