almost midnight rivaclaw thinkings: What if I turned the grotty old boombox that I own into a portable raspberry pi based audio player? 🤔
I think to start with I should is just get the pi playing audio through the speakers and then measure how much power it all draws
@renbymon I think that's a really cool idea. I love the retro look of boomboxes. One thing to be aware of, they were designed before anyone understood how sound works, so they really don't sound good lol. You're basically just hearing the raw speaker with no sounding chamber.
@TheMNWolf I'll keep that in mind, but ultimately it's not a deal breaker if the sound is a bit rough. ^^
It's a Panasonic RX-5010ls (like the one pictured)
@renbymon Oh that's a little baby one 💜 I thought you were going to be talking like one of those giant shoulder mounted ones lol
@TheMNWolf oh sorry no, haha; I've never seen one of those giant ones in my entire life! ^^;
@renbymon One of these days when I have disposable income again, I'm going to do a cosplay of the Satisfactory pioneer and I am totally making the boombox to go with it 😁
@TheMNWolf Oh heck yeah!!!
@renbymon Makes for a super fun project, did this to a pony toy that looked like a cassette player ages ago. Stuffed one of those dirt cheap MP3 player modules in it.
Sounds absolutely dreadful, but hearing angry songs blasting from it and rattling the poor toy speaker is absolutely all part of the fun!
@renbymon palatine dewit.gif!
Bonus points for making NFC cassettes that'll pick a playlist for you >.>
@Jencen I think I'm gonna remove the tape-mech entirely and replace it with a screen for information display :3
@renbymon Why not both? >.> OLED panels are very slim these days <.<
Dammit. making me wanna tinker now >.>
@Jencen maybe in the future, but doing an NFC thing is outside of my comfort zone, plus I have a deadline for this ^^;
The boombox in question is a Panasonic RX-5010ls (the one pictured is not mine), but it's pretty worse for wear and the radio was the only thing that worked (for about six months, lol) and parts of it are falling apart.
Plan is to take it apart, give it a good clean, and then work out how to wire the raspberry pi into the speakers. I'd like to keep the actual audio parts (as it does have volume, balance, and tone) but time and ability are factors. x3