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NES controller cannibalized for MP3 player enclosure
We know some folks are very upset by the scrapping on vintage hardware, so let’s all observe a moment of silence for this NES controller. Now that that’s behind us we can live vicariously through...
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Ugly upgrade keeps the tunes playing longer
[Sam] picked up a Sansa Clip audio player to listen to some tunes while working on projects. He liked the fact that he could run the Rockbox alternative firmware on the device, but thought the 15 hour...
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MBox: A Child’s MP3 Player
For young children, music is a wonderful and exciting thing — but do you really want them playing with your phone, or worse yet, an iPod? [Arons] decided to make the MBox, an Arduino powered MP3...
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Bumpy, The Beautiful DIY MP3 Player
[Matt]‘s been working on a small hombrew MP3 player, and although it’s not much more useful than an iPod Shuffle, sometimes that’s all you need. Besides, it turned out to be a beautiful project,...
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Reanimating a Philips HDD 1420 MP3 Player
[OiD] had a dusty, old, forgotten Philips HDD1420 GoGear mp3 player kicking around his place. As you can imagine, the battery was dead. He had no charger or connector for the thing, but decided to try...
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The Cassette MP3 Player
1994 was twenty years ago. There are people eligible to vote who vaguely remember only one Bush presidency. You can have a conversation with someone born after the millennium, and they think a 3.5...
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Old-Timey MP3 Player Blends Old Styling With New Technology
No, this isn’t the first commercial MP3 player ever produced. It’s a blend of the old and the new, old time looks with modern electronics. [viscomjim] recently made this MP3 Player from the ground up...
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The 2000GB iPod You Wished For In The 00’s Is An iSore
Remember those times we all said that we wouldn’t mind it if the iPod was three times as thick but could store a lot more songs and the battery lasted forever? Well, the I-Sore will let us truly...
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MP3 Player and Handheld GPS is an Odd Combo Work Of Art
We think [Brek Martin] set out to build a handheld GPS and ended up adding an mp3 Player to it. Regardless, it’s beautifully constructed. Hand built circuit boards and even a custom antenna adorn this...
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Sansa MP3 Player Runs Doom Unplayably
DOOM, is there anything it won’t run on? Yes. Your front lawn cannot currently play DOOM. Pretty much everything else can though. It’s a testament to the game’s impact on society that it gets ported to...
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“The Cow Jumped Over The Moon”
[Ash] built Moo-Bot, a robot cow scarecrow to enter the competition at a local scarecrow festival. We’re not sure if Moo-bot will win the competition, but it sure is a winning hack for us. [Ash]’s blog...
View ArticleAsk Hackaday: How On Earth Can A 2004 MP3 Player Read An SDXC Card?
What were you doing in 2004? Can you even remember 2004? Maybe it’s like the old joke about the 1960s, if you can remember it, you weren’t really there, man. Cast your mind back, [Lance Armstrong] was...
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Dust Off Those AM Radios, There’s Something Good On!
If you are into vintage electronics or restoring antique radio equipment you may be very disappointed with the content offerings on AM broadcast radio these days. Fortunately there is a way to get...
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Driftwood Binary Clock Is No Hollow Achievement
It’s about time we had another awesome clock post around here. [Mattaw] has liked binary clocks since he was 0 and decided to make one in stunning fashion by using driftwood, nature’s drillable,...
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Be Vewy Vewy Quiet, We’re Hunting Baofengs
In the world of ham radio, a “Fox Hunt” is a game where participants are tasked with finding a hidden transmitter through direction finding. Naturally, the game is more challenging when you’re on the...
View ArticleTelephone Plays The Songs Of Its People
Music, food, and coding style have one thing in common: we all have our own preferences. On the other hand, there are arguably more people on this planet than there are varieties in any one of those...
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Rise and Shine with this Japanese-Inspired Clock
On the Hackaday.io page for his gorgeous “Sunrise Alarm Clock”, [The Big One] is quick to point out that his design is only inspired by Japanese lanterns, and does not use authentic materials or...
View ArticleBaby’s First Jukebox is Fun for Parents, Too
Believe it or not, there’s a $400 toy mp3 player out there for kids. It looks pretty nice, with colorful buttons and a wood console and all, but those features don’t really justify the price tag....
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Toddler-Friendly MP3 Player Navigates with Light
When designing this custom MP3 player for his grandson, [Luc Brun] ran into a unique problem. He wanted the boy to be able to operate the player on his own, but being only 2½ years old, the user...
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Teardown: Wonder Bible
Even the most secular among us can understand why somebody would want to have a digital version of the Bible. If you’re the sort of person who takes solace in reading from the “Good Book”, you’d...
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