I got a new phone.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

makes me wonder how hard it would be to build a mp3 player in a small white box with buttons halfassedly drawn on it. stuff an arduino into it. maybe there's some way to make the buttons work via capacitance?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

like imagine, you see someone on the train wearing a pair of KSC75s plugged into what looks like a deck of cards wrapped in inkjet paper, drawn on with a sharpie to say "M3Ps" on the back, just "back, forward, play, pause, stop" written on the front. maybe a box drawn for a fake screen with a smiley face drawn inside it

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

actually come to think of it I could just hide regular clicky buttons behind the paper...

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@aeva i think most Arduinos are too weak for audio playback

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@aeva you can get cheap Chinese MP3 players for less than 10 quid btw if you know where to look

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ratsnakegames they've got some fancy ones these days, but an rpi would probably be fine too

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ratsnakegames there's a great abundance of suspiciously cheap mp3 players on amazon, I just don't know that I want an ipod clone that isn't open hardware

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

it would be neat if I could get it down as smol as a match box, but I don't think I have the m4d skillz needed to figure that out

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@aeva we're interested in whatever you learn about capacitative controls, we've also wondered that sort of thing

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

this looks promising on the "smol" front https://store.arduino.cc/products/dfplayer-a-mini-mp3-player

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ireneista I'll post about it for sure if I pursue it

[halcy@icosahedron.website]

@aeva you wouldn’t download chicago

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@halcy I absolutely would >:D

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva 🙀
I'm jealous

[ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva you just unlocked an old memory: I wanted to make a soundcard for a Ti-84 connected through the 2.5mm jack because I wanted to have the ability to play sfxes and musics for a certain project I had on it while keeping the little CPU I had to for other stuff.

[tecteun@mastodon.social]

@aeva they kind of suck 😅 get an esp32 with i2s, which is way more flexible (check tangara, though probably hard to find). My current every day mp3 is a "aigo eros q" with Rockbox on it, very nice, also runs doom 👍

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tecteun tangara looks neat, but it's not available for purchase and it's unclear if it ever will be again

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

new phone's camera is adequate #boris

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tecteun what specifically is sucky about the dfplayer?

[vethanis@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva an arduino uno r4 looks like its powerful enough to decode mp3s without an external board https://learn.adafruit.com/native-mp3-decoding-on-arduino/overview

I'm considering this since the main way I listened to music has been enshittified and I have to drive to work these days.