I got a new phone.

[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.

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva if you are more interested into the crafting an mp3 player than the electronics, sparkfun have a lilypad mp3. Come read mp3, ogg and maybe flac from micro sd, as a jack for headphone, an tiny amp for stereo speaker, a jst connector and charge circuit for lipo battery. It's designed to be programmed with and ftdi programmer and be hooked up with conductive thread.

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva why is your cat so smooth and pretty 😭

[kojack@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva If it had bluetooth, I'd probably go back to my resurrected iRiver H300, such a cool device. It does have great quality with wired headphones, but when I'm out I don't want to give up wireless bone conduction.

Plus it has one of the features I most miss on all modern devices: an input lock switch. No accidental button presses possible.

[zanagb@mastodon.social]

@griotspeak @aeva they basically stopped production in june last year, if you didn't get yours (we didn't) before summer, it's unlikely you'll get one.

HOWEVER, the BOM and schematics are all opensource, so nobody would step someone from hitting their local manufacturer and get the shell and PCB's and buttons printed

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@zanagb @griotspeak my local manufacturer of /what/?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel boris is very good at being a cat ^_^

[zanagb@mastodon.social]

@aeva @griotspeak

Yeah, horrendous naming convention in our part.

Depending on where you are in the world you can ask some company to 3D print the case from it's schematics as well a send you a printed circuit board with most, if not all, the items on any given BOM soldered onto it. (probably outside of the MCU and display).

Of course there is nobody _manufacturing_ the tangaras but you probably can get most of it's components semi-assembled/soldered upon.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i also like that this thing has three buttons that can be assigned their own functions. i've got one set up to toggle on and off the flashlight function.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@zanagb @griotspeak is this something you personally have done?

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva this reads like the notes you find in a horror game

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel "the device has three buttons that can be assigned their own functions. I've got one to toggle on and off the flashlight function, one to operate the camera, and one to [sudden dramatic static] *painful dry coughing* it's not much, but in this god forsaken place you make do with what you can to survive."

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva ship it :3

[zanagb@mastodon.social]

@aeva No, but knowing the existence of replicas for old mac motherboards people can theoretically just download and ask their mousers and pcb ways to print would imply it is at least feasible to create a new Tangara from it's blueprints and bill of materials.

However, this feels like you're trying to angle the conversation in a way where you can lash out for suggesting that since the schematics and BOM's are FOSS, someone else could make a new run of devices on their own. So we're bailing out.