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Echoplayer: Echo – Open Hardware Music Player (github.com)
rkagerer 17 hours ago [-]
Saw the title and had hoped it might be a new open source firmware for the Amazon Echo.
ashafq 17 hours ago [-]
I love it! I used to be a huge fan of Rockbox.
stonogo 18 hours ago [-]
and if you don't want to wait, you can get an open hardware music player hre as well: https://cooltech.zone/tangara/

they're different -- tangara is an ipod homage with custom firmware and a touchwheel. echo r1 is meant to run rockbox with buttons.

they differ in i/o ports as well: tangara has a regular old headphone jack. echo r1 has a TRRS jack and a line-out jack.

walterbell 6 hours ago [-]
Since it has ESP32 wifi, how is the battery life on tangara?
mouse_ 18 hours ago [-]
> It's primarily designed to run Rockbox

Fuck yeah

ronnieboy493 17 hours ago [-]
I remember being young and having loading Rockbox on my iPod. Great times.

Playing DOOM, which I hid from my hyper-religious parents, was always a blast. It trashed the battery so I kept it plugged in - it would get very hot. Probably terrible for the device but I was a kid and wanted to slay some demons.

There was a Mandelbrot viewer that was pretty cool. Lots of stuff I'm probably forgetting.

It also functioned as a device for adult images that I would dual boot into. Not the best for my young brain most likely. Still, I have plenty of nostalgia around using computers to solve parental problems. Or creating more because I didn't understand partitioning, boot loaders, or really anything when installing Ubuntu on a family machine. :)

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