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Raspberry Pi Plays All That Jazz

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Al Williams

[James Bellafaire] wanted a good looking old radio with a modern sound. Granted, you could hollow the case out and replace it with an iPod. Or you could convert the thing to an Internet radio. But where’s the fun in that?

[James] took a different approach. Part woodworking project, part Raspberry Pi project, and part microcontroller project, he wound up with a hard drive-based music player in a 1930’s case with knobs that control the playback.

Since the Pi isn’t great at reading potentiometers, [James] took at ATTiny85 and used it for that purpose. Coupled with a few hundred old …read more

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Here’s a Playlist of Some of the Earliest Pirated MP3s on the Internet

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Jordan Pearson for Motherboard

Celebrating 20 years of ripping MP3s. Continue reading Here’s a Playlist of Some of the Earliest Pirated MP3s on the Internet→

Synchronize Data With Audio From A $2 MP3 Player

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Jenny List

Many of the hacks featured here are complex feats of ingenuity that you might expect to have emerged from a space-age laboratory rather than a hacker’s bench. Impressive stuff, but on the other side of the coin the essence of a good hack is often just a simple and elegant way of solving a technical problem using clever lateral thinking.

Take this project from [drtune], he needed to synchronize some lighting to an audio stream from an MP3 player and wanted to store his lighting control on the same SD card as his MP3 file. Sadly his serial-controlled MP3 player …read more

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