MP3 player kit

[Clifford Heath]

My son (22yo) is asking what MP3 player kits are available in Australia.
I've asked him for more details on what he has in mind (that isn't covered
by commercial units), but I can say that he's a competent (degreed)
programmer who also knows how to use a soldering iron (though he hasn't
built many circuits), so something with available software source code
and an open development platform would be excellent. More details when
he replies to my email... meantime...

Any suggestions?

 

[swanny]

My son (22yo) is asking what MP3 player kits are available in Australia.
I've asked him for more details on what he has in mind (that isn't covered
by commercial units), but I can say that he's a competent (degreed)
programmer who also knows how to use a soldering iron (though he hasn't
built many circuits), so something with available software source code
and an open development platform would be excellent. More details when
he replies to my email... meantime...

Any suggestions?

I built one of these in a rack box with a couple of power amps and a removable
hard drive.

http://www.kitstream.com/

Has been going well for several years now.

 

[dmm]

My son (22yo) is asking what MP3 player kits are available in Australia.
I've asked him for more details on what he has in mind (that isn't covered
by commercial units), but I can say that he's a competent (degreed)
programmer who also knows how to use a soldering iron (though he hasn't
built many circuits), so something with available software source code
and an open development platform would be excellent. More details when
he replies to my email... meantime...

Any suggestions?

http://www.avrcard.com/products/mp3minicube.htm

http://www.brokentoaster.com/butterflymp3/index.html

http://www.rockbox.org/

 

[swanny]

I built one of these in a rack box with a couple of power amps and a removable
hard drive.

http://www.kitstream.com/

Has been going well for several years now.

Also Jesper Hansen's MP3 work:

http://www.myplace.nu/mp3/index2.htm

Quite a few different ideas here and kits/pcb's available.

 

[Clifford Heath]

Any suggestions?

Nice one, thanks guys, some good things to go on with there.

Clifford.

 

[kreed]

For something a little different that may interest him:http://www.dontronics-shop.com/product.php?productid=16663

Don...

Looks a very interesting product, Is there a similar unit available
that will play video as well ?

 

[swanny]

My son (22yo) is asking what MP3 player kits are available in Australia.
I've asked him for more details on what he has in mind (that isn't covered
by commercial units), but I can say that he's a competent (degreed)
programmer who also knows how to use a soldering iron (though he hasn't
built many circuits), so something with available software source code
and an open development platform would be excellent. More details when
he replies to my email... meantime...

Any suggestions?

I notice that Altronics have an MP3 hard disk player kit on special at the moment:

http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?area=item&id=K2770

 

[Alex Gibson]

Nice one, thanks guys, some good things to go on with there.

Clifford.

Could get a
board from sparkfun.com then control it with <insert favourite
microcontroller>
and interface to an sd card to load the music from.

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=519

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7832

Fairly easy with a pic or avr or <insert favourite micro>

Not sure if Don resells any of the vs1002 boards


Alex