[SunRescue] Thought on SPARC MP3 player.

[Dan Sikorski]

This is more in response to what David Michaud wrote, but i accidently
deleted his message.

I was looking at putting a computer in my car to play mp3's into my car
stereo.  I read an article in Linux Journal about a home mp3 player that
used an X10 remote for control.  My biggest problem was that i wanted
something that would be compact, and i really couldn't find a reasonable
soution.  As far as the HDD is concerned, a laptop drive should do just
fine.  Probably the best solution (as far as i was concerned) was to find
a laptop (on ebay perhaps) with a broken display.  This would have
everything that you would need.  a vibration/shock resistant HDD, built in
sound, and all in a nice compact case.  Obviously, this was going to be
an x86 job.  As far as the software is concerned, the article in LJ had
that pretty much figured out, with some pretty cool voice systhesis
stuff, and the X10 remote.  I kept that issue around, and i'll see if i
can dig it up.  If anyone would want to know what issue it was, let me
know, and i'll try to find it.

	-Dan

P.S. If this message is incoherent, i apologize, i haven't been feeling
well :(

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Ken Caruso wrote:

>
> It would be cool if you could put a audio card in one of those under $1000
> 1u netra boxes.
>
>
> Ken
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't those new space hardened SPARCs be more appropriate, especially
> > since this is a sunhelp list?  It certainly would get you more geek
> > points.
> >
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> >
> > On Fri, 11 May 2001, David Michaud wrote:
> >
> > > Along thses lines, I have been thinking about building a car mp3 player
> > > using an all-in-one, all-on-board socket7 (ie, Pentium class)
> > > motherboard and placing it in a 1U rack enclosure with a custom power
> > > supply (13.8v car supply/120v autoswitching for portability, etc) and
> > > control electronics for a remote serially controlled LCD and keypad for
> > > operational functions, which would be mounted somewhere on the
> > > dashboard... a 4line x 20char backlit LCD for ex. The hardware end, to
> > > me, is the simple part... simple standalone UART to interface the LCD
> > > and keypad decoder to serial line to the system, but the software end
> > > I'm not sure about... I would need some custom software to do X and Y
> > > and Z when X, Y, and Z are pressed/performed/selected up on the keypad,
> > > etc etc... Anyone have any ideas on this?
> > >
> > >
> > > -Dave
> > >
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