He wanted our advice to help this woman who’d only ever really used a radio stream radio stations from across the country via a laptop. We were a local repair shop and she was in a nursing home & the son wasn’t local. Stuff like this always prompts a lot of “well why not just do x” that reminds me of a sweet older lady who’s son called us at the office once half a decade or so ago. Posted in digital audio hacks, hardware, Microcontrollers Tagged audio, audio streaming, music, rfid, spotify, streaming audio Post navigation Want more digital music with a tactile interface? Check out this MP3 Player Shelf or a Simple Internet Radio Transplant. Definitely check out the full photo gallery including shots of the really impressive packaging. Clean simple lines and a combination of wood and more modern materials make this feel like a timeless piece of tech.
While there is still work to do for a fully seamless experience, we love the details in the industrial design of this project. Future iterations could include an integrated speaker and run libspotify to create a self-contained device. As this is a prototype, an Arduino reads the RFID tag, but needs a computer to actually play the Spotify playlist. Specific playlists are selected via small RFID tags that look like a cross between a MiniDisc and a vinyl record. Digital music has made keeping all your tunes with you a lot more convenient, but have we lost something with dematerialization? felt that there was something lacking with the digital music experience and designed a Spotify player with a tactile interface.
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