My Senior Project, Inspired by Digital Gunfire

[Warr]

A little background: I've been hooked on this station for a little over a year now.  Its good music to solder to or build boards by.

I actually found a way to get DG in your car.

1. Buy Sprint Treo 700p
2. Buy PocketTunes Deluxe
3. Enjoy EvDO speeds + Shoutcast capable player
4. Plug Treo 700p into car stereo with appropriate input
5. Enjoy DG anywhere

I too wanted to listen to DG anywhere, so this inspired my partner and I to build a portable streaming MP3 player that can connect to Shoutcast servers.  In the end, our plans to use Sprint cards fell through, but we managed to get it working using some older 802.11b CompactFlash cards.

Our office is tiny but I can't complain.




Here's the project.  My partner and I designed it, he hand-soldered it and I wrote drivers and network code for it.



It also has a simple touch screen interface for station select and play control, and a simple web-based interface to select stations as well.



Here's our first prototype, which became a Frankenstein's Monster of spaghetti wiring.  Amazingly it still works.



We did all this as a final project for our degrees in computer engineering.  From what we showed people, we've had a lot of positive feedback from it.  I even made sure Shirow got mentioned in the acknowledgements in our final report ;)

Thanks for checking it out and keep the killer music going.

Warr

[Jib]

Congratulations on getting that going.  

How did you get the PCB?  I was surprised by the lack of wire wrap.  I made an MP3 player out of an Atmel chip also. I wire wrapped the whole thing, that look ugly.

Mine was just a compact flash mp3 player no internet connections.  Good choice on Atmel, I love there chips.

So when is the consumer version going to be available?

[Shirow]

That's kick ass :)

[Warr]

Thanks guys.

We designed the PCBs using Cadsoft EAGLE and our school had the basic facilities to fabricate the prototype.  We didn't totally shy away from wire wrap on the prototype either but things had to get done.

The final boards were fabricated by Sunstone Circuits (formerly PCBExpress).  They hooked us up with a $350 scholarship / discount so they deserve a plug here too.

No plans to market it as is... there are already a couple of similar products out there and with a new job, a move, and other big commitments probably the most I will do is hardcode the IPs for Digital Gunfire's relays and use it at home.

Warr

[koggen]

Hey, that was a really cool project :)