Radio Free Hackday

When we were brainstorming ideas for the hackday, our basic concept was the creation of a physical interface for online music browsing. We chose the FM Radio for its iconic familiarity and its cheap price.

The device is a Panasonic RF-2400, we removed the power supply to make room for an Arduino Mini running custom firmware and shortwired the internal electronic so that the radio is always tuned to the same frequency.

A simple potientiometer tracks the position of the frequency display that lets the user chose between different cities and musical genres. The arduino then transmits this data to a computer that streams music from the Citysounds.fm and SoundCloud APIs back into the device using a FM Transmitter.

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Built by

  • Simon Hohberg ( simhoh ø gmx de )
  • Robert Böhnke ( robb ø beer2peer com – @ceterum_censeo )

    More Photos

    http://beer2peer.com/hackday/P1010668.JPG

    http://beer2peer.com/hackday/P1010669.JPG

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/47091995@N08/4316188452/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulamarttila/4316497942/

    Thanks!

    We’d like to thank Henrik Berggren for his general awesomeness, the citysound.fm api and the bazillion tools he lent us (hot glue included), Matthias Arrelid for the photos & support, Andie Nordgren for the prototyping breadboard, Ullrich Schäfer for the Cocoa API Wrapper, Pacemaker for the fine prizes and all the really nice people who made this hackday possible.

     

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