Joshua Shriver wrote:

> Nay it's actually kinda silly. I was driving to work the other day and
> thought, how radio seems to play the same 10 songs over and over
> again. Then I thought of my girlfriends car who's radio displays song
> titles and everything which sparked my interest of how it was able to
> do that. After some searching I came across RDS and  a couple sites
> with RDS decoder schematics. I'm really new to EE, but thought this
> would be a fun first project.
> 
> Once I can capture the RDS stream via a serial connection, I can
> record the song names, frequency, etc and do data mining to see "hey
> Britney Spears is played 3000 times a day" lol.
> 
> But there are other possibilities too like you said traffic info.
> Just seems like a fun and somewhat simple project.

So don't forget to add infrared input/output capability.
Then you can control a radio to scan the channels continuously to see
just how bad the repeat rate is for ALL your local channels.
I assume it takes only a second or two to lock on to the RDS data.

Any URLs that you found particulalry useful?
I'd like to take a quick look at what RDS is about.

Robert


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