This is the seventh part of an ongoing series about building a low cost, open source streaming internet radio. If you haven`t already, check out the previous parts (see the links at the end of this article) for some background about the project. In part six, we used OpenWrt`s UNIX-style shell commands to interface with mpd, the music player daemo
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n, and redirect song and stream information to our ASUS WL-520gU wireless router`s serial port. In this part, we`ll use a Sparkfun 16G—2 LCD display and a handful of other components to build an LCD status display for the radio. After much thought, I decided to use an Atmel ATmega168 AVR microcontroller to drive the display. I realize that this raises the technical level of this project significantly, but I have been wanting to feature an AVR project on the site and this is a great opportunity. The truth is that an Arduino would work just as well and it shouldn`t be too difficult to port this program to an Arduino sketch. (The Arduino is built with the same ATmega168 microcontroller, after all. ) If anyone does this, let me know and I`ll post a link to your version of the display. If you are new to the AVR, don`t be intimidated. There are a number of tutorials online to help you learn how to use this inexpensive and powerful microcontroller. I recommend starting with this one or maybe this one, but see my note about AVR MacPack below if you`re using a Mac. If you`ve never programmed in C before, you`ll have an additional hurdle to get over, although for this project you won`t need any actual knowledge of programming or C to burn the code to the AVR and get things working. I recommend following a tutorial or two and getting a simple blinking LED example working on your AVR before building the LCD display. That way you can be...
This project fits more for custom made battery casing that can have more space to hide things inside. This switch with few alterations can be used for any other project as well but is designed based on e-bike needs! This project use a clever functionality of....
The circuit described here uses ultrasonic oscillations and operates based on the propagation velocity of these oscillations in the air. Thus, we can easily determine the distance of two points if the time within which the wave travels this distance is....
Sometimes the precious metals are hidden too deep and are not detected except with complicated devices. In many cases, however, small pieces of precious metal buried near the surface can be detected by relatively simple means. Everyone is very attractive to....
Many times for various reasons we forget or can not water the plants that we have in our homes. And many humidity sensors units just notify us with a beeping sound or with a flashing light, that the pot needs watering. But what if we are away from home? This....
The principle behind a metal detector is really very simple. Proof of this is the circuit that follows, in which it proves that the construction of a metal detector can be done in the minute, with few components that we find very easily everywhere. With the....
The sub-harmonic bass generator is a sound producing unit for guitars. The sound it produces looks very much like that of the bass guitar. The octave generator is sometimes quite unusual since it does not produce any of the usual ways of coloring the sound,....
In the past the sounding (sea bottom measurement) was done with the "bullet", that is, with a heavy lead object that the seamen plucked into the sea hung from a calibrated rope. As soon as the "bullet" reached the bottom, the depth appeared directly from the....
This Amplifier was designed to have the following specifications: Distortion less than 0.1% at full power of 100W even at 20KHz. Power has to be attributed to an extended bandwidth. The output transistors must be protected against short circuits. The power....
A series of LEDs serve to alert the gardener when plants need water. Using two conventional digital integrated LEDs and a series of LEDs, we make a very useful device for gardening. The device detects the amount of water in the pot and alerts the grower.....
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