I got a new phone.

[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.

[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 ^_^