I am sure your client wont want to lose business on this, so how about just
releasing the pic code, and basic layout cause that is enough for most
picsters who would do this project anyway, but not enough to take clients
away from your client.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Roll" <ash@DIGITALNEMESIS.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Car MP3 player. (oh no, again!!!)


> Hi Brusque,
>
> Just too let you know, You can build your own player with a PIC! Not
simple,
> but can be done.
>
> I'm nearing the end of a development process for a client where I've made
an
> MP3 player using a PIC16F877 (20MHz) a Compact Flash card for storage
> (reading FAT16) streaming the MP3 data to a STA013 mpeg decoder IC. I've
> written all the code in C, no optimisation and it happily plays 128Kbps
MP3s
> which are more then good enough for a car sound system and much better
then
> my clients needs.
>
> A 64MB CF card will hold about a CD's worth at the 128Kbps data rate and
you
> can get bigger ones and IBM micro-drives that pretend to be CF cards in
the
> 1GB range..
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not able to give much detail because it is a commercial
> project for a client, but I thought some on the list may be interested to
> know it can be done.. :) Others have probably already done it.. :)
>
> If you have any specific questions about it I'll try to answer them..
>
> Actually If anyone is interested I might be able to adapt this system (if
my
> client agrees) to a kit so you can build your own car MP3 player.. It is
all
> surface mount though :) Any takers?
>
> Cheers,
> Ash
>
> ---
> Ashley Roll
> Digital Nemesis Pty Ltd
> www.digitalnemesis.com
> Mobile: +61 (0)417 705 718
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Edson Brusque
> > Sent: Friday, 8 February 2002 9:38 AM
> > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: [EE]: Car MP3 player. (oh no, again!!!)
> >
> >
> > Hello people,
> >
> >     I'm looking for a new CD-player for my car but I'm
> > seriously thinking
> > about spending some time doing my own Car-MP3-player.
> >
> >     My idea is to use one of that little single board
> > computers (SBC) with
> > one AWE64 sound card, one HD and displaying the informations
> > on an 4x40
> > 44780 LCD. The keys would simply be switches attached to the
> > printer port
> > with the LCD.
> >
> >     Well, I'm looking for some DOS based MP3 players and
> > there is many that
> > could do the job. Probably there's someone that made a player
> > with support
> > for LCD and switches on parallel port.
> >
> >     The biggest problem seens to found a SBC (486DX4-100
> > would do) that I
> > could buy cheaply and only one unit. Someone here knows where
> > can I buy a
> > 486 SBC on an ISA card format?
> >
> >     Thank you very much,
> >
> >     Brusque
> >
> > -----------------------------------
> > Edson Brusque
> > Research and Development
> > C.I.Tronics Lighting Designers Ltda
> > Blumenau  -  SC  -  Brazil
> > www.citronics.com.br
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